Please stop all this discussion of patents in this area. Bringing up a
US patents here makes US list members more likely to be treated as
willful infringers of that patent:
http://www.ipwatchdog.com/patent/advanced-patent/willful-patent-infringement/
if the PostgreSQL code duplicates that method one day.
The idea of surveying patents in some area so that their methods can be
avoided in code you develop, that is a reasonable private stance to
take. But don't do that on the lists.
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Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant US greg@2ndQuadrant.com Baltimore, MD
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