[bob1029]

Give the customer what they want, even if it sucks to do so. The alternative it be cast into irrelevance over time. You can run an OSS project however you want, but you can't avoid the consequences of doing so.

Principles driven development (we will never or always do X regardless of context) typically comes off as a petty ego trip. The point of the technology is to serve some kind of downstream business. Most people who download Postgres are seeking to solve a real world problem, not to demonstrate their ideological purity.

[skywhopper]

What are you talking about? This has nothing to do with the article, which describes a query plan advice provider that solves lots of problems with typical hint systems, and does so in a manner good enough to be worthy of including in core, rather than throwing in a half-baked broken clone of Oracle because people are scared to install an extension.

[bob1029]

> A Brief History of "Never"

> The Postgres community's position on query hints has been, shall we say, firm. The official wiki page on the subject states it plainly: "We are not interested in implementing hints in the exact ways they are commonly implemented on other databases. Proposals based on "because they've got them" will not be welcomed."

Are we reading the same article?