Re: Managing the community information stream - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Lukas Kahwe Smith
Subject Re: Managing the community information stream
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Msg-id 4640D051.1000307@pooteeweet.org
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In response to Managing the community information stream  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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Hi,

guess I missed hackers on my initial reply. So I am re-sending the reply 
I send to Joshua based on the reply I send to him in regards to a 
hackers@ posting.

Read below.

regards,
Lukas

Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> 
>>
>> That being said, it seems obvious that so far PostgreSQL has been 
>> mainly driven by what developers feel like implementing. I think this 
>> is also what ensured the high level of standards compliance of 
>> PostgreSQL, since features were tailored for experienced DBA types, 
>> rather than end users that are less experienced in how to leverage 
>> these standards.
> 
> PostgreSQL has *never* been developed with the DBA in mind. Keep in mind 
> that most of the postgresql developers have *zero* real world 
> experience. Nor do they run postgresql themselves in real world 
> production environments.

Well, certainly more with a DBA in mind than a middle tier developer?

regards,
Lukas

PS: Did you mean to only reply to me?



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