Re: Do you have any objections on contributing your improvements of the PostgreSQL core back into the product?

The people to get in touch with are the core developers. They can
easily be reached from the PostgreSQL hackers list.

For the core team on the hackers list, here is a fascinating experiment
which has a very clever treatment via materialized views:
http://research.csc.ncsu.edu/selftune/

It could benefit PostgreSQL in interesting ways.

-----Original Message-----
From: Rada Chirkova [mailto:chirkova@csc.ncsu.edu]
Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 7:53 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?

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

;)

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Best regards,

Rada

Dann Corbit wrote:

It seems to me that your enhancements are extremely useful.