PostgreSQL History(Parody)

On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Bruce Momjian wrote:

Here is a parody of the post-6.5 PostgreSQL history. I am interested in
additional ideas and comments. Not sure if I am going to publish this
or put it on the web page yet.

*rofl* Publish, publish!! :)

Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org

Bruce Momjian wrote:

Here is a parody of the post-6.5 PostgreSQL history. I am interested in
additional ideas and comments. Not sure if I am going to publish this
or put it on the web page yet.

Damn, just when I told the kids they could use the NT CD for a frisbee.

Btw. the South African Linux Professional Association (http://www.lpa.org.za)
had a stand at our Computer Faire. It was across the road from the Microsoft
Stand.

We were voted two things - the second most ugly stand at the show and the most
popular stand at the show. We moved over 5000 copies of RH6.0 with the
guys from the huge expensive MS stand looking on!

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Regards
Theo

:-)

<center>
<h1>
The History of PostgreSQL</h1></center>

<center>
<h2>
Part II(Parody)</h2></center>
After PostgreSQL 6.5, we decided to change some things.&nbsp; First, we
cut out the beta testing period.&nbsp; We decided to make every prime-numbered
release a stable release.&nbsp; This worked fine for a while, but as the
version numbers got larger, the number of prime numbers became rare.&nbsp;
We put out more unstable releases to reach the prime stable release version
numbers.&nbsp; We removed the regression tests.&nbsp; (Saved disk space).&nbsp;
The documentation was too hard to maintain, so we removed that too.&nbsp;

Also, as Stonebreaker once said, productional rule systems
are conceptually simple. After changing our concepts some
more it was so easy that really a first time BASIC programmer
could have done it all (we simply simplyfied your concept by
removing productional rules at all - no concept no problems).

Jan

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On 06-Jun-99 Jan Wieck wrote:

:-)

Postgres 111111.001

To avoid possible portability problems we change touple
storage to plain text file.
All allowed query is restricted to simple select query:

So backend looks like

postgres.sh:
cat $1

and psql become just simbolic link to vi

;-))))

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* There will come soft rains ...

Any plans to integrate MS ActiveGPF into the code base at some point in
the future :-) As Stef* says - "I wan't my GPFs"

* www.userfriendly.org

->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->---<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<
James Thompson 138 Cardwell Hall Manhattan, Ks 66506 785-532-0561
Kansas State University Department of Mathematics
->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->->---<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<-<

*rofl* I like it...when can we implement it?:)

On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Dmitry Samersoff wrote:

On 06-Jun-99 Jan Wieck wrote:

:-)

Postgres 111111.001

To avoid possible portability problems we change touple
storage to plain text file.
All allowed query is restricted to simple select query:

So backend looks like

postgres.sh:
cat $1

and psql become just simbolic link to vi

;-))))

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Dmitry Samersoff, dms@wplus.net, ICQ:3161705
http://devnull.wplus.net
* There will come soft rains ...

Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org

To avoid possible portability problems we change touple
storage to plain text file.

Don't laugh. There was once a database based on Unix standard tools. I
read about it 10 or 15 years ago. I believe it was called rdb. Maybe it
still exists?

Hi Kaare,

do you mean /rdb. I have used it with Coherent. It was distributed 1992
together with Coherent under the copyright of Revolutionary Software,
Inc.

There should exist one book (Schaffer?).

-Egon

To avoid possible portability problems we change touple
storage to plain text file.

Don't laugh. There was once a database based on Unix standard tools. I
read about it 10 or 15 years ago. I believe it was called rdb. Maybe it
still exists?

If it is shql, I wrote it.

It is attached.

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do you mean /rdb. I have used it with Coherent. It was distributed 1992

Yes, that's the one. Never tried it, but liked the idea. Easy to fix
problems :-)

Hi!

On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Kaare Rasmussen wrote:

Don't laugh. There was once a database based on Unix standard tools. I
read about it 10 or 15 years ago. I believe it was called rdb. Maybe it
still exists?

Yet Another One is called NOSQL (no, it is not using SQL, hence the name :)
and you may find it on freshmeat. I tried it once...

Oleg.
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