[brlug-general] Interview with PostgreSQL lead..

[Fernando Vilas]

On Thursday 11 October 2007 06:44:30 Dustin Puryear wrote:
> I thought this was an interesting interview:
>
> http://howsoftwareisbuilt.com/2007/08/22/interview-with-josh-berkus-postgre
>sql-core-team-lead-sun-microsystems/
>
> What I thought was interesting was that even though Sean, the
> interviewer, mentioned the word "MySQL", it was never brought up again. :)

Very interesting interview.  I knew PostgreSQL was the default db on Solaris 
distributions (at least 11/06 and 08/07), but I didn't realize how involved 
Sun was in the development.  And I'm glad to see their policy about not 
shipping with any patches that don't have a really good shot at getting into 
the mainline.

There was an announcement recently about a PostgreSQL patch to support SELinux 
labels.  With Sun having the Trusted Extensions in Solaris 10 just to get 
EAL4+LSPP, it will be interesting to see if some of those patches have to do 
with TX.  Or even better, if the pgsql daemon learns to read CIPSO headers on 
packets sent to its port.

On another note, the db holy war is very much in the realm of vi/emacs, 
Linux/BSD, GPL/BSD, and the like.  The PostgreSQL developers were wise to 
dodge that.  I like that PostgreSQL focuses so much on standards compliance 
to aid in portability, both in terms of ANSI SQL and POSIX interfaces, and I 
tend to use it for my own projects, but I've used others and I don't engage 
in zealotry about it.

-- 
Thanks,
Fernando Vilas
fvilas at iname.com
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