| From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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| To: | Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Ron Mayer <rm_pg(at)cheapcomplexdevices(dot)com>, Mark Mielke <mark(at)mark(dot)mielke(dot)cc>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Marko Kreen <markokr(at)gmail(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, mlortiz <mlortiz(at)uci(dot)cu>, Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at> |
| Subject: | Re: Rejecting weak passwords |
| Date: | 2009-10-16 15:28:51 |
| Message-ID: | 200910161528.n9GFSp604319@momjian.us |
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Dave Page wrote:
> Too many of those caveats, and it's easy to see how we can be
> discounted early in the evaluation phase. It's not helped that often
> these lists will be drawn up by people used to working with the
> commercial DBMSs, so we probably wouldn't get extra points for having
> a dozen procedural languages, or other features that are largely
> unique to PostgreSQL, no matter how cool and useful they are.
Yep, this is illustrating something that is pretty basic to open source
--- that is open source often provides the tools for a solution, rather
than a complete solution. I often think of open source as providing a
calculator with wires sticking out, rather than calculator buttons; the
wires allow more flexibility, but they are harder to use.
Personally I think the calculator/wires approach is better from an
engineering perspective, but it can be a handicap in the user experience
and checkbox categories --- ease of use is perhaps not our strong point.
Much of our open source value is being different, in both cost,
reliability, and configurability.
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> http://momjian.us
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