Re: 8.2 features status - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: 8.2 features status
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Msg-id 200608081425.k78EP6R10056@momjian.us
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In response to Re: 8.2 features status  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> > My big point is that we should choose a system that would have had a
> > better chance of completing features than what we have used in the past,
> > and no one has suggested one.
> >
> > It is just like the bug tracker issue.  Many think we need a bugtracker,
> > but when I ask to see a project that has one that is better than what we
> > have now, no one responds.  Again, the same criteria should be applied
> > to this issue.
> >
> > If people want to do something different with no objective hope it will
> > be better, feel free to go ahead and do it, but I can't get excited
> > about spending time on it.
> >   
> 
> I give up. You say "try something else and we'll see what works best."  
> I respond "great idea.". Then you say "but it won't work anyway." Is it 
> any wonder people get frustrated? Why give the illusion of an open mind 
> when you have already made up your mind?

I am saying other people can try a new system, but I don't have time to
try something different when no evidence has been given that it is
better (just different).

> >>> Or try a new system, and I will keep doing what I do, and we can see
> >>> which system works best.

I realized when I said, "we can try" that I was being inconsistent, but
I was just saying that if others want to try something, go ahead.  I
personally don't see how it will improve things, but if others want to
spend time on it, they are welcome to do that.

What I am not willing to do is to abandon a system that works for one
that doesn't have evidence it is an improvement, and I don't want to
spend time on a new system just for the sake of trying to do two systems
at once.

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