Robert Haas wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Sorry, I've been a bit distracted by other responsibilities (libtiff
>> security issues for Red Hat, if you must know). I'll get on it shortly.
>
> What? You have other things to do besides hack on PostgreSQL? Shocking! :-)
I suspect you're kidding, but in case some on the list didn't realize,
Tom's probably as famous (if not moreso) in the image compression
community as he is in the database community:
http://www.jpeg.org/jpeg/index.html
"Probably the largest and most important contribution however was the workof the Independent JPEG Group (IJG), and Tom
Lanein particular."
http://www.w3.org/TR/PNG-Credits.html , http://www.w3.org/TR/PNG/
"PNG (Portable Network Graphics) SpecificationVersion 1.0...Contributing EditorTom Lane, tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us"
http://www.fileformat.info/format/tiff/egff.htm
"... by Dr. Tom Lane of the Independent JPEG Group, a member of theTIFF Advisory Committee"