Re: Berkeley DB license

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc: "Michael A. Olson" <mao@sleepycat.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2000-05-16T17:52:03Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> On Tue, 16 May 2000, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> > > On Tue, 16 May 2000, Michael A. Olson wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Rather than replacing just the storage manager, you'd be replacing
> > > > the access methods, buffer manager, transaction manager, and some
> > > > of the shared memory plumbing with our stuff.  
> > > 
> > > So, basically, we rip out 3+ years or work on our backend and put an SQL
> > > front-end over top of BerkleyDB?  
> > 
> > Now, no one is suggesting we do this.  The issue is exploring what gains
> > we could make in doing this.
> 
> Definitely ... I'm just reducing it down to simpler terms, that's all :)

I am glad you did.  I like the fact we are open to re-evaluate our code
and consider code from outside sources.  Many open-source efforts have
problems with code-not-made-here.

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