> > The point is, that if the combined effort of all "hackers" (with the > > help of some large scale users) cannot come to a more or less > > generally adequate answer, the field dba most certainly won't eighter. > > True, but I regard your "if" as unproven. The reason for this call for > alpha testing is to find out whether we have a good enough solution or > not. I feel no compulsion to assume that it's not good enough on the > basis of no evidence. Yes, sure, sorry. I certainly don't mean to be offensive. I am just very interested in this area, and the reasoning behind your decisions. Time to start reading all your code comments, and doing test cases :-) Andreas ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster