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by anarazel 2774 days ago
> What? I would be proud to have got this into postgres core, but perhaps you operate on a different plane of excellence. https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=blobdi....

It's just a minor rewrite of parts of the commandline client. Mostly made verbose by by renaming structs members / moving members around. 22+ years ago.

> but perhaps you operate on a different plane of excellence.

I work on PG close to full-time. So I sure hope I've many more contributions than that ;)
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Myrmornis 2774 days ago
OK, well that's great that you contribute to/work on postgres, I have a lot of respect for that project and in general for low-level work like that rather than the product-level nonsense that I work on. But I still think you shouldn't publicly belittle any open source contributions, let alone ones on a project with such high standards for acceptance, and relatively high intellectual barrier to entry, as postgres.
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anarazel 2774 days ago
My point wasn't to belittle the contributions, but to point out that he wasn't a "key figure".
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Myrmornis 2774 days ago
Yes, "key figure" was clearly inaccurate. But

"A few small changes."

"just a minor rewrite of parts of the commandline client. Mostly made verbose by by renaming structs members / moving members around."

People...really find learning programming hard. Many, many people, even if they try, won't manage to have the intellectual discipline to learn C to the level that you're disparaging. I'm pretty sure that you and I both agree that we shouldn't refer to someone else's hard work in that way.

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anarazel 2774 days ago
> I'm pretty sure that you and I both agree that we shouldn't refer to someone else's hard work in that way.

I only said they're not large changes. small != worthless.

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