On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:20 AM, Ron Mayer
<rm_pg@cheapcomplexdevices.com> wrote:
> 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 work
> of the Independent JPEG Group (IJG), and Tom Lane in particular."
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/PNG-Credits.html , http://www.w3.org/TR/PNG/
> "PNG (Portable Network Graphics) Specification
> Version 1.0
> ...
> Contributing Editor
> Tom 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 the
> TIFF Advisory Committee"
Yes, I was joking, hence the smiley. I did know he was involved in
the above, although I confess I didn't know to what degree... or that
he had a doctorate.
--
Robert Haas
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The Enterprise Postgres Company
