Re: SE-PostgreSQL?

From: Greg Williamson <gwilliamson39(at)yahoo(dot)com>
To: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: SE-PostgreSQL?
Date: 2009-07-18 22:16:17
Message-ID: 229961.75829.qm@web46105.mail.sp1.yahoo.com
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David Fetter asked:

>
> 1. Among the committers who could maintain the features, whatever
> they turn out to be, who is actually volunteering to do so?

I am not a committer, but I saw a message about issues with documentation --
I would be willing to help on making documentation and comments more
robust; I don't speak Japanese but have a couple of friends who do that I
can call upon for some help.

>
> 2. Apart from Kohei-san and Stephen Frost, is anybody actually
> interested in having this feature at all?

This feature would be of interest in some corporate circles as well as
government and health care. That said it seems like two issues are biting
those working on it: (a) it's a lot of work even to get a simple version and
(b) the model differs from the more tradition ACL and trying to wrap
collective heads around the implications is an exercise in and of itself.

My gut feeling is this is so much work that it needs a paying sponsor to
see it through. Trying to do it without more hands is likely to distract from
other items on the to-do list.

Greg W.

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