From: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
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To: | andrew(at)supernews(dot)com |
Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: The Contrib Roundup (long) |
Date: | 2005-06-07 21:00:53 |
Message-ID: | 200506071400.53837.josh@agliodbs.com |
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Andrew,
> userlocks is just a very thin interface to functionality that's really in
> the backend. What's left in contrib/userlock probably isn't even
> copyrightable in any case. The best bet is probably to re-implement it in
> the backend directly.
>
> Removing it certainly isn't a good idea; the functionality is important.
Hmm. It needs to be re-written from scratch then so that we can remove the
GPL, or if you can get an attorney to say it's not copyrightable ...
> (It doesn't "rely on per-record OIDs" either.)
Ah, I misread the code then. It still seems like application code to me, but
I'll happily admit to not really understanding it.
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Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco
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