On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Aidan Van Dyk <ai...@highrise.ca> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Dave Page <dp...@pgadmin.org> wrote: > >> Yeah - MySQL is one of the ones I've been hacking on. It's hard to be >> motivated if its going to need a complete rewrite within a year >> though. I'll still have to work on it, as I've committed to giving >> talks on it, but others might not bother to even start. > > It's a double-edged sword. If nobody writes anything, because > everyone is afraid to possibly having to change things, nothing will > never need to be changed ;-)
It might be that the process of writing the MySQL FDW code would show off things that'll need to get changed. So the breakage might turn out to be Dave's fault! :-) [Seriously.] We really won't know what needs fixing/improving until nontrivial FDWs get written, and it would be somewhat ironic, but really not hugely surprising, if Dave wound up requesting changes to the underlying API to *properly* support what he writes. There's some degree of irony and amusement to be found here, but nothing that strikes me as disturbing. -- When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?" -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
