On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 08:58:01AM -0800, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Well, I guess the question is: if we don't offer some builtin way to render
> non-standard formats built into company products, will those companies fix
> their format or just not use PostgreSQL?
Well, there is an advantage that Postgres has that some others don't: you
can extend Postgres pretty easily. That suggests to me a reason to be
conservative in what we "build in". This is consistent with the principle,
"Be conservative in what you send, and liberal in what you accept."
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