On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 08:34:29AM +0200, Laurenz Albe wrote: > > Now looking closely at postgreSQL, I see an opportunity to more quickly implement Oracle's current feature list. > > Anything that improves user experience in that respect is welcome, but consider > that each database has different approaches to solve the same problems. > > Before you go to the length of implementing a lot of stuff, check in with > the -hackers list and discuss your ideas. > > Please be a lot more specific than in this e-mail. While it is certainly > fine to sketch your ambitios vision, focus on one specific thing you can > imagine implementing and come up with a design for that. > > Note that "Oracle has it" is not a good enough reason for a PostgreSQL > feature. We think we can do better than they do (at least in many respects). > Also, don't assume that everyone on the -hackers list will be familiar with > certain PostgreSQL features. > > One think that you should keep in mind is that Oracle has to provide different > features in that area because they are not open source. In PostgreSQL, I can > simply read the code or attach a debugger to a backend, and when it comes to > profiling, "perf" works pretty well. So there is less need for these things. > > I don't want to discourage you, but contributing to PostgreSQL can be a lengthy > and tedious process. On the upside, things that make it into core are usually > fairly mature. Jeff, I suggest you consider Laurenz's suggestions above, and try to ignore the comments from Mladen Gogala, since they are caustic and I believe unhelpful. Frankly, we rarely have such caustic comments on the Postgres email lists. I have emailed Mladen Gogala privately to discuss this. -- Bruce Momjian <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> https://momjian.us EDB https://enterprisedb.com If only the physical world exists, free will is an illusion.
