On 10/31/16 9:50 AM, Christofer C. Bell wrote:
> He's getting a lot of pushback that really feels it's coming from the
> wrong direction. "Just learn it." "It's always been this way." "No
> one agrees with you." These arguments are unconvincing. That said,
> there's nothing wrong with just saying, "we're not going to change it
> because we don't want to."
The community often does a horrible job of viewing things through the
eyes of a new user. This is why mysql became so popular for a while.
Comments like "just learn it" are unproductive and push new users away.
And we wonder why we're having trouble attracting new developers...
This has actually been discussed recently on -hackers as well[1], and
there is some general consensus that simplification in this area would
be a good idea.
1:
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20160826202911.GA320593@alvherre.pgsql
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