David Fetter wrote:
== PostgreSQL Weekly News - April 01 2005 ==
As of today, the license of PostgreSQL, including all its libraries,
is changing from the unfashionable BSD license to the more popular
GPL.
Fine I can't see the difference, but have you not got to clear this with every developer past and present to get it through.
Tom Lane has accepted a job at MySQL AB. He announced his departure rather abruptly on the Hackers list yesterday:
So long, suckers!
I wonder why?
With the change in leadership, core team members will implement
changes to the project. One which has picked up a lot of enthusiasm
is migrating the PostgreSQL code base away from C. Bruce Momjian
explains, "C has served us pretty well for 20 years. But we think
it's time to move to a more modern, and let's face it, more popular
programming language. With the JVM testing, and the performance
degradation, and retraining, we probably won't do any development for
2 years, but we figure it's worth a try."
Ok the reason, If you think you can write a database that runs faster than a snail in Java, you need to re-think. Tom obvouly knows this and when to jump ship. Perl or Python would be faster!!! (And I know I've worked in them and know the only thing slower than Java is good old paper and pencil.)
PWN notes that the migration to Java will affect only the query
analyzer, executor, and storage engine. The client tools will be
re-written in COBOL.
Could that sentance please be reversed I could understand the client tools being written in Java (just about) Cobol can more than cope with a database, its older than C,
A new language translation set of .po files for into 1337. w3lc0m3 t0 t|-|3 n3\/\/ /\/\3/\/\|3rz 0f teh c0mm|_|n1t'/!!1!!
Either this message is a joke, Or you have all gone mad? I see a postpostgres on the horizon.
Peter Childs
== PostgreSQL Product News ==
PL/APL procedural language project launched http://www.pgfoundry.org/projects/plapl
Bricolage 1.8.7.2.9.11.0.6.201.7a released. http://www.bricolage.cc/news/announce/changes/bricolage-1.8.7.2.9.11.4.6.201.7a/
== PostgreSQL in the News ==
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