Magnus Hagander wrote: > On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 11:44 PM, Josh Berkus <j...@agliodbs.com> wrote:
> > Would certainly be nice. Realistically, getting good automated > > performace tests will require paying someone like Greg S., Mark or me > > for 6 solid months to develop them, since worthwhile open source > > performance test platforms currently don't exist. That money has never > > been available; maybe I should do a kickstarter. > > So in order to get *testing* we need to pay somebody. But to build a great > database server, we can rely on volunteer efforts or sponsorship from > companies who are interested in moving the project forward? The reason for this is obvious. You cannot just give the responsibility of creating a good testing framework to any random guy you just found on the internets. It has to be an expert, you see. > But sure - I'm all for trying a kickstarter. Did anybody ever try that > for an actual postgres feature? Didn't JD and/or cmd and/or pgus at > some point try something like that? Hmm, I vaguely recall at CMD there was an attempt to work on a feature paid via crowd-funding, but I don't recall if we got there or not. In a way, the foreign key locking patch was done that way, but it wasn't true crowd-funding but multiple companies sponsoring (at least partly, because we spent so much more on it than we initially thought we would). Not quite the same thing, I guess; but then if you get several companies to each put larger amounts of money than an individual would, I guess your kickstarter might also succeed. -- Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
