> "Mark Woodward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> My frustration level often kills any desire to contribute to open >> source. >> Sometimes, I think that open source is doomed. The various projects I >> track and use are very frustrating, they remind me of dysfunctional >> engineering departments in huge companies, it is very hard to positively >> discuss any new ideas. The first response is always some variation on >> "no." > > Well, at least for PG the process has to be biased towards "no", because > we have to keep the code reliable and maintainable. If we bias in the > direction of throwing in every little feature someone thinks up, we'll > soon have a buggy, incomprehensible mess.
I would submit that there is an intermediate state, and perhaps the medium is too binary, where someone says "Lets send a man to Jupiter, here's why" Before dismissing it out of hand, one tries to understand the reasons why, and sugest how to get there or alternate destinations. Not just say, I don't want to go to jupiter. > > FWIW, the proposal as it seems to have evolved (config file separate > from pg_service and known only to pg_ctl) doesn't seem too unreasonable > to me. I might have some use for it personally, if the implementation > is capable of launching back-version postmasters as well as > current-version. This is what I'm talking about, this was constructive, and while I wouldn't have thought of it, I think having something like "POSTMASTER=/usr/local/pg7.4/bin/postmaster," while not something I would personally use, may apply to other users. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
