Newt Gingrich made 1.8Million consulting after he left office for a job where he can't even remember what he did. Do you really think these people need the salary they get for being in Congress?

QUOTE: There's already a glut of IT workers.

Have you tried hiring truly qualified 24/7 ops type IT people lately? They are, and will continue to be, hard to find.

outer joins CAN'T be reordered...

PostgreSQL will reorder joins as it pleases to make more efficient joins. Note that outer joins can be reordered because changing their order changes the meaning of the joins.

QUOTE: The worst part was differences with dates and the pickyness of postgres with joins

Urgh. The ANSI standard very clearly states that if you mix implicit and explicit joins, the explicit joins go first. So, this query:

select * from a,b join c on (a.id=c.id)

won't work in any compliant database, because a.id doesn't exist yet when joining b to c. And guess what happened in MySQL v5.1? That type of join started throwing an error just like pgsql does.

select 1 where '2001-01-02 00:00:00'::text between '2001-01-01 00:00:00'::timestamp and '2001-01-05 00:00:00'::timestamp;
ERROR: operator does not exist: text >= timestamp without time zone
LINE 1: select 1 where '2001-01-02 00:00:00'::text between '2001-01...
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HINT: No operator matches the given name and argument type(s). You might need to add explicit type casts.

Hey whadya know, postgres has been doing this for years now.

RMS is not anti-profit / anti-commercial. He is anti-closed source. They are not the same thing.

Anybody old enough to remember the 1980s might remember the Video Toaster. It was designed on the back of a napkin as well.

I setup a dual homed network system in about 5 minutes with arno iptables in ubuntu. Super simple and very reliable and easy to setup.

Stonebraker abandoned first Ingress as hopelessly broken to build Postgres. Which he then abandoned as hopeless broken to move on to various projects like the more recent VoltDB. He left Postgres a VERY long time ago, and hasn't been involved in the project since well before pg 7.0 hit the scene.