On 6 Mar 2016 8:27 p.m., "Peter Geoghegan" <p...@heroku.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 4:41 PM, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Yeah, I agree with that. I am utterly mystified by why Bruce keeps > > beating this drum, and am frankly pretty annoyed about it. In the > > first place, he seems to think that he invented the idea of using FDWs > > for sharding in PostgreSQL, but I don't think that's true. I think it > > was partly my idea, and partly something that the NTT folks have been > > working on for years (cf, e.g., > > cb1ca4d800621dcae67ca6c799006de99fa4f0a5). As far as I understand it, > > Bruce came in near the end of that conversation and now wants to claim > > credit for something that doesn't really exist yet and, to the extent > > that it does exist, wasn't even his idea. > > I think that it's easy to have the same idea as someone else > independently. I've had that happen several times myself; ideas that > other people had that I felt I could have easily had myself, or did in > fact have. Most of the ideas that I have are fairly heavily based on > known techniques. I don't think that I've ever creating a PostgreSQL > feature that was in some way truly original, except perhaps for some > aspects of how UPSERT works.
Everything is a remix. Thom
