I have no doubt that a competent programmer could learn the PostgresHello,
innards well enough to do the job; as someone pointed out earlier in
this thread, none of the core committee was born knowing Postgres.
I do, however, doubt that it can be done in six months if one has
any significant learning curve to climb up first.
This is a completely reasonable statement. However we have three full time programmers right now that are fairly familiar with the internals of PostgreSQL. They are the programmers that are currently coding our transactional replication engine (which is going beta in about 3 weeks), plPHP, and also did the work on S/ODBC, S/JDBC and PgManage.
I am not going to say that we are neccessarily Tom Lane material ;) but my programmers are quite good and learning more everyday. They have been in the guts of PostgreSQL for 9 months straight, 40 hours a week now.
Sincerely,
Joshua Drake
regards, tom lane
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