Re: [GENERAL] Postgres vs commercial products - Mailing list pgsql-general

From The Hermit Hacker
Subject Re: [GENERAL] Postgres vs commercial products
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Msg-id Pine.BSF.3.96.980726155011.261h-100000@thelab.hub.org
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In response to Re: [GENERAL] Postgres vs commercial products  (Herouth Maoz <herouth@oumail.openu.ac.il>)
List pgsql-general
On Sun, 26 Jul 1998, Herouth Maoz wrote:

> At 4:23 +0300 on 24/7/98, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
>
>
> >     I don't believe any offence could be taken by this...my question
> > back is are those features that are currently missing of such an import to
> > you that you'd be willing to pay one of the developers to take the time to
> > focus on what you require?
>
> If I have to pay the authors for doing what I want, I am going to buy
> Informix or Oracle tomorrow... As I said, Postgres's main merit is that
> it's free.

    Nobody said anything about *having* to pay for anything.  The
question was whether or not ppl feel that a particular unsupported feature
was important enough to them, *right now* to cover the costs of paying a
contract programmer to do it *right now*.

    Its a matter of some company saying "I need this feature right
now, and am willing to throw X dollars at it to get it moved to a higher
priority position to get it done" vs. "right now, this feature isn't
scheduale till v6.4 or v6.5 or...etc"...


Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org


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