Re: Google SoC--Idea Request - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jonah H. Harris
Subject Re: Google SoC--Idea Request
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Msg-id 36e682920604151625uaefda49uceb960cf9e14a62f@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Google SoC--Idea Request  (Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>)
Responses Re: Google SoC--Idea Request  (Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>)
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On 4/15/06, Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com> wrote:
> Doing the latter is a precondition for implementing the former in a
> reasonable way, I believe.


> BTW, these two web log entries summarizing Mono and Mozilla's
> experiences with SoC might make interesting reading:

Thanks for the reading material.  I don't think our project is exactly
the same, but it's good information to keep in mind.

> Given the above, I would be wary of such projects bit-rotting. If the
> upstream project hasn't bothered to add PostgreSQL support, there might
> be a good reason why: writing truly database-agnostic applications is
> not always easy (or even desirable).

This isn't always the case.  In a lot of cases, the developers just
wanted to take the easy route and used MySQL... they have a lot of
people asking for PostgreSQL support but they don't have the expertise
to add it themselves.

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Jonah H. Harris, Database Internals Architect
EnterpriseDB Corporation
732.331.1324


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