"Jonah H. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 2/28/07, Gregory Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> "Jonah H. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > Which is, of course, how everyone else does it. >> >> I happen to agree with your conclusion but this line of argument is >> exceptionally unconvincing. In fact in this crowd you'll tend to turn people >> off and lose people if you say things like that rather than convince anyone >> of >> anything. > > Rather than reinventing the wheel, it often pays to piggyback on the > solutions others in similar situations have encountered. I'm just > stating how others provide similar functionality or capabilities. If > someone dislikes an idea just because the major vendors have done it > that way, that's their own problem. It's up to the community to > decide how to proceed given the information at hand.
Except that's not what you're doing. There's nothing wrong with saying "foo does this clever thing I think we should copy because <insert argument>". Nor even "foo does this thing, would that help us?" But what you seem to be saying is "*Because* foo does this thing we can conclude it's a clever thing and we should do it". -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate
