Tom Lane wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Might it be possible to contact IBM directly and ask if they will allow > > usage of the patent for PostgreSQL. They've let 500 patents for open > > source, maybe they'll give a write off for this as well. > > If there were hard evidence that the ARC algorithm was far better than > the alternatives, it might be worth going in that direction. But there > is no such evidence. Jan has retracted his original opinion that the > ARC code is a big improvement over what we had before, and I haven't > seen anyone else putting up benchmark numbers that say we need to keep > ARC.
And ARC has locking requirements that will make it very hard to fix our SMP buffer management problems in 8.1. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
