Re: OpenVMS? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: OpenVMS?
Date
Msg-id 1266353528.12190.72.camel@jd-desktop.unknown.charter.com
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In response to Re: OpenVMS?  (Andrew Chernow <ac@esilo.com>)
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On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 15:47 -0500, Andrew Chernow wrote:
> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > On Tue, 16 Feb 2010, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >
> >> I hate to pour cold water on this, but why is it worth adding support
> >> for a platform that has such marginal usage.
> >
> > Because someone feels like dedicating their resources to it ... ?
>
> That's step one.  Step two is community approval.  Otherwise, anyone
> with an idea would be a committer.

With all respect to OpenVMS, I really can't help but ask, "why?". The
maintenance load over time will be large and I can't imagine this being
a wide use platform for us.

Joshua D. Drake


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