On Thu, Jul 4, 2024 at 5:40 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > I happened to come across this: > > https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.01973 > > I found this to be really interesting reading,
Just by the way, for anyone interested, that paper appeared as a chapter in a book "The Pragmatic Wisdom of Michael Stonebraker". It is expensive but a very enjoyable read. I doubt many other chapters from it are obvious candidates for a pointer from our docs like that one, except a couple of the old papers that we reference already. Another one that I especially enjoyed was Mike Olson's description of how Ingres, and Postgres not long behind it, were the first completely open source software, because through a series of coincidences they finished up publishing everything under an early not-yet-finalised BSD license before BSD itself. (BSD still required an AT&T licence for some bits until they were removed so it wasn't 100% open source until they fixed that, I think ) As for Joe Hellerstein's paper, personally I am still chewing on the many ramifications of the stuff pointed to by one paragraph of Hellerstein's paper, that I rambled about here, gulp, 5 years ago: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CA%2BhUKGL-Fo9mZyFK1tdmzFng2puRBrgROsCiB1%3Dn7wP79mTZ%2Bg%40mail.gmail.com
