Re: [HACKERS] Proposal for a cascaded master-slave replication system

Jan Wieck wrote:
> I would like to add that there is a good reason why they aren't in the 
> same league. As a rule of thumb one can say that the smaller a software 
> company, the faster some development must turn into revenue. That is why 
> Oracle and Microsoft have the "time" to do things right. They can throw 
> 20 manyears at a project and if it turns out that wasn't enough, double 
> down on that. I include MS on purpose here, because they gain that time 
> from some products, and then use it on others like SQL server. MySQL on 
> the other hand didn't have that "time" in the past, and look what they 
> do as soon as they have 19.5 million seconds more "time" ... the only 
> thing that is right, replace the whole architecture, or what is that 
> MaxSQL move? I hope 19.5 million seconds are enough, honestly. Because 
> nobody will double down in their case.
> 
> PostgreSQL does not have that problem because the base project itself 
> does not depend on any companies success. Time is relative. Our time is 
> very patient compared to their time. PostgreSQL gets the time it needs 
> for free.

Yes, I noticed that we have a much longer view of our software lifecycle
than most other open source projects.

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