Hello all, With this "paten issue" on hand, can't we come up with a "pluggable" API and pluggable cache-replacement modules so that folks who care not for US patents can simply download and load in the "PgARC" module, and those who can't, just load the "NeilLRU", or a "BetterThanARCCacheReplacement" module that don't violate those pattents. If the modules all conform to the same pg-cache-replacement API, they could be swapped on the fly. I believe the API and the two modules: ARC of Jan and LRU of Neil, can be implemented for 8.0.1 and be less invasive than just ARC yanked out and replaced with LRU.
I believe, PGDG does not need to concern itself with removing and all traces of ARC from CVS or otherwise; on the conrary, it still can ship the ARC module as an add-on to those who wish. This is possible because the project is NOT hosted in the US (if I am wrong correct me). This idea will also help the commercial vendros of PG to write up their own modules they think best, of if they can't, just always load in LRU in their commerical deployments of PG in the US. -- Serguei A. Mokhov | /~\ The ASCII Computer Science Department | \ / Ribbon Campaign Concordia University | X Against HTML Montreal, Quebec, Canada | / \ Email! ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
