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Re: [pgsql-www] Corporate Contributors WAS: merging advocacy and

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"Joshua D. Drake"
Date:
>
>>An example is Practical PostgreSQL. That book has been
>>online since the day it hit shelves, free for anyone to use.
>>But it isn't the same as say donating patches to ECPG or
>>PlPerl which gets directly injected into the community.
>>Practical PostgreSQL is a community resource, but it is
>>not community sponsored.
>
>
> On the other hand, PL/PHP is considered a "contribution" even though it is
> hosted at CMD's site.

Well that brings up another paradigm of course, which would be
popularity. If I recall, plPHP was actually considered to be put into
core but it can't be because it was a circular dependency.

(You have to have the PHP source to make plPHP, that is not the case
with plPerl or plPython).

To be honest I hadn't even thought about plPHP because oddly enough
plPerlNG is more popular.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake




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Re: [pgsql-www] Corporate Contributors WAS:

From
Robert Treat
Date:
On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 13:29, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> >
> >>An example is Practical PostgreSQL. That book has been
> >>online since the day it hit shelves, free for anyone to use.
> >>But it isn't the same as say donating patches to ECPG or
> >>PlPerl which gets directly injected into the community.
> >>Practical PostgreSQL is a community resource, but it is
> >>not community sponsored.
> >
> >
> > On the other hand, PL/PHP is considered a "contribution" even though it is
> > hosted at CMD's site.
>
> Well that brings up another paradigm of course, which would be
> popularity. If I recall, plPHP was actually considered to be put into
> core but it can't be because it was a circular dependency.
>
> (You have to have the PHP source to make plPHP, that is not the case
> with plPerl or plPython).
>

I think (hope) eventually it will become a project up on pgfoundry,
built using the pgxs tech, living a lot like plr.

Robert Treat
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