Re: Do you have any objections on contributing your improvements of the PostgreSQL core back into the product? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

I am very, very sure that anything that makes PostgreSQL stronger will
be deeply appreciated by the PostgreSQL team.

To the PG team, see the following:
http://dbgroup.ncsu.edu/
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~rychirko/

Especially:
http://research.csc.ncsu.edu/selftune/

This is a fabulous project with smashing results, already done against
PostgreSQL.

Could someone on the official PostgreSQL team raise their hand, please,
and say: "We are interested in folding in this valuable research study
back into the core of PostgreSQL, thus making it much stronger and more
capable than it is now."


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rada Chirkova [mailto:chirkova@csc.ncsu.edu]
> Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 2:55 PM
> To: Rada Chirkova
> Cc: Dann Corbit
> Subject: Re: Do you have any objections on contributing your
improvements
> of the PostgreSQL core back into the product?
>
> Dear Dann Corbit, could you tell me whether you have heard back from
> PostgreSQL committers on whether they like my enhancements of
PostgreSQL.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Rada
>
> Rada Chirkova wrote:
>
> > Thanks! I will work over the summer on getting good students to do
> > this. Should I get in touch with some PostgreSQL developers other
than
> > you to coordinate the effort.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Rada
> >
> > Dann Corbit wrote:
> >
> >> I think that a cooperative effort between the core team of
PostgreSQL
> >> developers and your graduate students is definitely the most
logical
> >> approach.
> >>
> >> The PostgreSQL engine has also been updated quite a bit now with
> version
> >> 8, and so certainly, some changes would be needed.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: Rada Chirkova [mailto:chirkova@csc.ncsu.edu]
> >>> Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 5:53 AM
> >>> To: Dann Corbit; Rada Chirkova
> >>> Subject: Re: Do you have any objections on contributing your
> >>>
> >>
> >> improvements
> >>
> >>
> >>> of the PostgreSQL core back into the product?
> >>>
> >>> Dear Dann Corbit,
> >>>
> >>> thanks for your response. I would be really delighted to
contribute to
> >>> the PostgreSQL core. At the same time, I have doubts about the
quality
> >>> of the implementation by my students. Do you think it would make
sense
> >>> to have good students reimplement the functionalities, perhaps
with
> >>>
> >>
> >> some
> >>
> >>
> >>> guidance from regular PostgreSQL contributors?
> >>>
> >>> Best regards,
> >>>
> >>> Rada
> >>>
> >>> Dann Corbit wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> My name is Dann Corbit.  I work for a company called CONNX
Solutions
> >>>> Inc. (which is a database company -- we write middleware like
> >>>> ODBC/OLEDB/JDBC/.NET drivers and things of that nature).
> >>>> Here is our web site:
> >>>> http://www.connx.com/
> >>>>
> >>>> We also happen to use PostgreSQL in some of our projects, and I
have
> >>>>
> >>>
> >> had
> >>
> >>
> >>>> some minor involvement in the PostgreSQL projects.  For instance,
the
> >>>> PostgreSQL team used some code we wrote in creating a native
version
> >>>>
> >>>
> >> of
> >>
> >>
> >>>> PostgreSQL 7.1.3 for creating the native windows version of
> >>>>
> >>>
> >> PostgreSQL
> >>
> >>
> >>>> 8.0.
> >>>>
> >>>> I read your paper on the network and downloaded the source code
that
> >>>>
> >>>
> >> you
> >>
> >>
> >>>> created.  It looks like a great enhancement to the PostgreSQL
> >>>>
> >>>
> >> database
> >>
> >>
> >>>> system.  For that reason, I was wondering if you would object to
> >>>>
> >>>
> >> posting
> >>
> >>
> >>>> your changes back into the PostgreSQL 8 core so that the new
> >>>> functionality is available to everyone.
> >>>>
> >>>> If you go and look on the PostgreSQL list server, you will see
that I
> >>>> post there fairly often.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>>> From: Rada Chirkova [mailto:chirkova@csc.ncsu.edu]
> >>>>> Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 4:10 PM
> >>>>> To: Dann Corbit
> >>>>> Subject: Re: Do you have any objections on contributing your
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> improvements
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> of the PostgreSQL core back into the product?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> could you tell me about yourself - your message was kind of
brief ;)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Best regards,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Rada
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Dann Corbit wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> It seems to me that your enhancements are extremely useful.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >