I received a reply form Ned Lilly (VP Hacker Relations - interesting title 😊), to whom Dave Mele forwarded my e-mail. He mentions Ben and Michael (from ArsDigita). Way to go Ben! Read on:
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL and Outer Joins
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 17:41:44 -0400
From: Ned Lilly
To: Roberto Mello
CC: David Mele, Tom Lane
References: 1
Hi Roberto,
Dave Mele forwarded me your message.
I can tell you that outer joins are a high priority for both the PostgreSQL
project and Great Bridge as a company. As you may be aware, Tom Lane, one of the
core steering developers for the project, recently joined the team at Great
Bridge. He will be the go-to guy for outer joins ... and the current plan is to
implement full support for outer joins concurrent with a major redesign of the
query tree structure. That's a big one, and will likely take longer than anyone
would like before getting 7.1 out the door.
However, now that he's got more time to work on Postgres 😊, he's looking into a
short-term solution for 7.1 that won't be dependent on the query tree redesign.
Stay tuned to the mailing lists...
BTW, we had a conference call with Ben Adida and Michael Yoon of ArsDigita the
other day about a number of things that you guys had run into with your OpenACS
port. Very productive - we'll be talking a bit more about some of the development
directions we'll be pursuing as a result of that call.
Thanks,
Ned Lilly
VP Hacker Relations
Great Bridge
