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Otto Hirr Re: [GENERAL] Sun acquires MySQL
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> Russ Brown wrote:
> > http://blogs.mysql.com/kaj/sun-acquires-mysql.html/
> >
> > What does this mean for Sun's support of Postgres?
> >

So why not go directly to the "source", Sun itself, and ask them?

Someone like Bruce should just knock on the door and ask.

Then you can evaluate the answer. Either a lie, the truth, or somewhere
in-between, and the answer may only have a certain "shelf-life", for what is
true today in the tech industry is false later.

..Otto



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Russ Brown http://blogs.mysql.com/kaj/sun-acquires-mysql.html/ What does this mean for Sun's support of...
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Joshua D. Drake Does it matter? :) I am sure OmniTI and Command Prompt will be happy to help any disgruntled...
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Otto Hirr So why not go directly to the "source", Sun itself, and ask them? Someone like Bruce should just...
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Geoffrey Gowey Sounds reasonable, but what one manager answers today is subject to be changed by another tomorrow. ...
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Otto Hirr The intent is to get out in the open their "official" statement. That in tu= rn may create a...
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Erik Jones Given that Josh Berkus works for Sun, I'd say we already have that. Erik Jones DBA | Emma®...
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Peter Eisentraut Postgres doesn't need to do anything, because the matter at hand does not concern Postgres, and I...
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Weslee Bilodeau Speaking from pure opinion here :) Oracle for example is buying out the little techs that MySQL...
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Gauthier, Dave If MySQL goes the way of Java, maybe there isn't too much to worry about.
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Dirk Riehle Is this up to date? http://www.postgresql.org/community/contributors/ I'm asking because I was...
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Dave Page 2 out of 7 - which would be Bruce & I. Regards, Dave ...
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dvanatta What's up with 3 of the 7 being from Pennsylvania? What's the connection? ...
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Bill Moran In response to dvanatta <dvanatta@yahoo.com>: Well, as everyone knows, Pennsylvania is a haven for...
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Joshua D. Drake Then why did Ben Frankly attach a key to a kite in the middle of a thunderstorm? Joshua D. Drake...
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Geoffrey Gowey And this is why I live in pa, but make the trek in to the netherworld known as new jersey. :D ...
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Ted Byers Does it count if I lived there for a year many many years ago? ;-) Ted...
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Raymond O'Donnell ...or if I visited for a day or two in 1986? ;-) Ray. Raymond O'Donnell, Director of Music, Galway...
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Joshua D. Drake Its the closest the cult of the elephant will get to jersey. Joshua D. Drake The PostgreSQL...
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Matthew T. O'Connor Whoa now, them's fightin' words. Come on over and you me, Tony, Paulie and Silvio will have a...
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Joshua D. Drake What? They do employ more contributors than that (oh and just because they are core doesn't mean...
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walterbyrd I think what I mean is less mission critical. I have never heard of a bank using MySQL as their...
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Martin Gainty Good Morning Walter dont forget MySQL also has support for simple commands such as show databases...
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Martijn van Oosterhout Type: \d Type: \l Not sure how it could be any simpler... Sorry? PostgreSQL supports SPs in several...
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Joshua D. Drake Technically postgresql doesn't support SPs, we support functions. I am not exactly sure what the...
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Greg Sabino Mullane Simpler, no, but it could be a lot more intuitive. I think having psql recognize /^help/i would be...
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Joshua D. Drake Joshua D. Drake
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Martijn van Oosterhout When you start psql you get the nice message: Welcome to psql 8.1.11, the PostgreSQL interactive...
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Joshua D. Drake If only it were that simple. I teach. I teach that exact statement you say above. Guess what the...
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Pavel Stehule I unlike it. It inconsistent! all metacommands or psql commands starts with backslash. regards...
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Pavel Stehule Hello true compilation is necessary only for some cases (note: MySQL stored procedures are not...
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Pavel Stehule Usability of plpgsql depend on case. There are some case where plpgsql is useless:...
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Tom Lane That's probably not worth the amount of effort it would take. The bottom line is: if you're doing...
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Guy Rouillier Unfortunately, I think the stored procedure implementation in PG itself introduces significant...
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Tom Lane I doubt that what you were measuring there was either procedure call overhead or java computational...
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John Fabiani Tom, I have read several of your post on store procedure performance. Why not give us your take on...
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Ivan Sergio Borgonovo Yep, the more I read, the more I get confused. Java loading overhead is a common myth (I can't say...
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Merlin Moncure It's fairly trivial to test performance of functions vs. raw statements, or just about anything...
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Pavel Stehule 1. use procedure lot of SQL statements --> use plpgsql 2. procedure needs some untrusted...
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brian ally That's some trick! Thanks for the lessons, Pavel. b ---------------------------(end of...
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Martijn van Oosterhout I'm not going go into this since in my experience they are fast enough and I don't know enough of...
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Merlin Moncure acos error on distance function is rounding issue, easy fix if you had to do it this way (although...
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Russ Brown Perhaps it would be useful to have a page in the documentation that provides a brief comparison...
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Ivan Sergio Borgonovo It'd be very appreciated. I tried to read this:...
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Scott Marlowe I don't see why it should change really, they kind of swim in different waters. What I do think is...
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Joshua D. Drake To my knowledge that "argument" is long gone, over and no longer relevant. What they do is hold...
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dvanatta How much does Sun currently contribute to the project? Do they have designated coders?
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Joshua D. Drake They employ a core member who is not a hacker. They provide some machines etc.. Sincerely, Joshua...
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Alvaro Herrera They contributed a DTrace patch and the Sun hackers can be seen from time to time. They're not just...
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Joshua D. Drake I didn't mean to imply that. I took his question as does Sun have regularly contributing hackers...
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