At 12:27 AM 1/23/00 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>I'm of two minds about this. Peter is an energetic new contributor
>and we'd be really foolish to discourage him (I was there not very
>long ago myself). And a limited DROP COLUMN capability is better
>than none at all, so long as its limitations are well-documented.
>
>OTOH, I understand Don Baccus' concern: Postgres is on the cusp of
>being considered professional-grade software --- we are competing
>against multi-K-dollar commercial offerings --- and we jeopardize
>that perception if we add features that are less than fully baked.
>This is definitely in the 50%-baked category...
I certainly don't want to discourage Peter, either, and perhaps
was a bit too harsh. But release of a feature this half-baked
would fit the stereotype many people have held towards free,
open source software, and postgres in particular.
IMHO, of course.
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