The Art of PostgreSQL

Re:The Art of PostgreSQL by jfbaro on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @10:58PM (#20754229)

I am going to buy the book for two reasons.One for its content and Two to somehow thank Dimitri Fontain for all his work on Postgres. He is one of the main Postgresql contributors.

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Re:The Art of PostgreSQL by ioltas on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @11:11PM (#20754284)

Dimitri is a major contributor of Postgres for a very long time, still he is no committer: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Committers

Saying that, the man is really cool and his book is very good, so that's a must-have for developers in my opinion.

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Re:The Art of PostgreSQL by i_feel_great on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @12:23AM (#20754552)

He is also at CitusData: https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2018/01/12/dimitri-fontaine-p...

By the way, I used to think Citus was bought out by IBM. By no, they are part of MicroSoft.

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Re:The Art of PostgreSQL by petergeoghegan on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @12:12AM (#20754505)

Seriously?

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Re:The Art of PostgreSQL by ioltas on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @06:43AM (#20756064)

If that was not clear, the root comment mentioned that Dimitri was a committer, and it got edited afterwards. Regarding the book, I have a copy of the first edition close by (with a dedication from the author), and for application developers I think that it provides good insight about various aspects.

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Re:The Art of PostgreSQL by hardwaresofton on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @11:29PM (#20754351)

For those fact-checking this:

https://twitter.com/tapoueh

> PostgreSQL Major Contributor (CREATE EXTENSION, Event Triggers), pgloader, el-get

This is a very bold lie to put on your Twitter, I'm going to go ahead and assume he's not one and the postgres wiki needs to be updated

[EDIT] - I stand corrected, everyone (but me) is right -- He is a contributor, not a committer to the Postgres project, and considered at the very least a major/notable contributor. No one stated that he was a committer but the comment above clarifying that he's not one is correct.

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Re:The Art of PostgreSQL by btown on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @11:41PM (#20754399)

Contributor != committer. Great projects need both people who are sticklers for process and code quality, and people who can focus on push the boundaries of what is possible while knowing that others have their backs on process. It appears the author is on the boundary pushing side, and that doesn’t diminish his contribution in the slightest.

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Re:The Art of PostgreSQL by teej on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @11:41PM (#20754397)

Being a contributor and having commit permissions are technically different things. Dimitri is listed as a contributor on the appropriate wiki page https://www.postgresql.org/community/contributors/

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Re:The Art of PostgreSQL by qaq on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @11:38PM (#20754384)

Being a contributor and having commit access are orthogonal.

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Re:The Art of PostgreSQL by samprotas on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @11:40PM (#20754395)

FWIW he is listed here

https://www.postgresql.org/community/contributors/

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