Honestly, if someone's spending time working on a high value open source project (which PG absolutely is), I'd rather they spend less time (than I do) crafting their internet comments to sound nice and more time contributing to society. And I hope people who actually use the product feel the same way, understand why every single use case can't be carefully considered every time it comes up, and don't take it personally.
People like to think they can escape politics. They can’t. Any group of >1 humans will involve politics.
Learning how to be respectful and polite is like learning how to touch type: it’s a small, painful price to pay once, for a lifetime of copious reward.
Except georgebarnett and jarym.
Or perhaps that was the point, that PostgreSQL isn’t doing much! :)
> Actually as great as Postgres is and as generally approachable the community is - my experience was the same a few times and I read it on the mailing list happening to others: - jarym
It seems that despite things not being perfect (and they never are), these people are still having positive experiences with the product and the community overall. So, to restate, some people care enough to post about it on HN, but nobody (who continues to use PG, and there are a lot of us) cares all that much.
If I’d been in the patch submitter’s shoes, I wouldn’t have thought twice about writing off that community.
If I had gotten your reply, instead: 100% fair play, thank you for your consideration, and send my love to the dev team.
Messaging matters.