Re: Postgresql and multithreading

Greg Copeland <greg@copelandconsulting.net>

From: Greg Copeland <greg@CopelandConsulting.Net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, PostgresSQL Hackers Mailing List <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-10-18T15:51:08Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 09:28, Tom Lane wrote:
> Greg Copeland <greg@copelandconsulting.net> writes:
> > On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 22:20, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Simple: respond to 'em all with a one-line answer: "convince us why we
> >> should use it".  The burden of proof always seems to fall on the wrong
> >> end in these discussions.
> 
> > ... Now, it seems, that
> > people don't want to answer questions at all as it's bothering the
> > developers.
> 
> Not at all.  But rehashing issues that have been talked out repeatedly
> is starting to bug some of us ;-).  Perhaps the correct "standard
> answer" is more like "this has been discussed before, please read the
> list archives".

I agree.  That sounds like a much more reasonable response.  In fact, if
you were to simply let the fledglings respond, it would completely take
you guys out of the loop.

Perhaps something like a Wiki or FAQ-O-Matic can be added whereby, the
user base can help maintain it?  That would seemingly help take some
load off of Bruce too.

Greg