> Hi Tom,
>
> Thank you very much for the good news! I was able to compile 7.2b2
> the other day and got it to work, too, with the patches Russ has
> described. But I don't want to be running beta software on my
> production box right now - I'm sure you can understand that ;-). Any
> indication when 7.2 Final will be coming out? A X-Mas present, maybe?
I am pushing for a pre-Christmas final and I think it is probable,
particularly because beta is going so well.
> Something completely different: I believe GreatBridge is no longer.
> Who is the driving force behind the further development of PostGreSQL
> right now - and if some of you guys do this full time, what is your
> motivation and how do you survive?
I have a full-time job with a PostgreSQL support company in Japan called
SRA. Others are continuing to work as they did before being employed by
a PostgreSQL company and weighing options. GB never steered PostgreSQL.
We continue as a primarily volunteer effort as we have in the past.
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