On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 06:30:36PM -0600, Mike Hoskins wrote:
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> I, for one, want to see this succeed for MySQL, PostgreSQL, msql, etc. It's an
> awesome feature that doesn't need to be speedy because it can save HUMANS time.
>
> The question really is, "When do we want to catch up to everyone else?" We are
> always moving to higher levels of abstraction, anyway, so it's just a matter of
> time. PG should participate.
The rest of your argument is probably fine. I'm not qualified to argue
the merits of this one way or another. But this passage's type of
reasoning reminds me of the Linus/Tannenbaum microkernel debates. All
the academics agreed that microkernel was _the_ way to go, and Linus
disagreed for some very good reasons. So now we have Linux, and Minix
has faded away. Yes, there are some working microkernels out there. But
popularity or popular agreement does not make something a good idea. Can
you say, "Windows"?
Paul
