On 9/19/06, Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@sigpipe.cz> wrote:
> # naz@mira.net / 2006-09-19 21:26:16 +1000:
> > if you want to be taken seriously by anyone who uses Windows (hands up
> > anyone who knows a Windows user)
>
> 1. what do those two things have in common?
> 2. what makes you think that "anyone who uses Windows" runs
> PostgreSQL on it?
> 3. my guess is you're a Windows programmer, and thus in much better
> position to fix the issue than Tom RedHat Lane.
His point makes sense, Roman. While pg is not a company or a company
product, it certainly needs to play nice with business in order for it
to *have* (a significent number of) users. As much as I dislike it
(probably the euphemism of the year), Windows is a fact on most
development machines and on a substantial number of servers. In the
case of Vista, even if none of the core commiters plan to support it,
it makes a lot more sense to store the RFE and say it'll have to wait,
than to say "you got a problem? go fix it". Both attitudes reflect the
same reality, but the fact that one is positive and one negative is
obvious.
Cheers,
t.n.a.