Tom Lane joins Salesforce.com

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Post by selenamarie » Wed, May 22, 2013, 10:02 PM UTC

Tom Lane joins Salesforce.com
wiki.postgresql.org

Re: Tom Lane joins Salesforce.com

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Post by selenamarie » Wed, May 22, 2013, 10:06 PM UTC

For a little more context on why this might matter: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/10/salesforce-orac...

Re: Tom Lane joins Salesforce.com

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Post by sheff » Wed, May 22, 2013, 10:26 PM UTC

I always look forward to reading Toms stuff on the pgsql-hackers mailing list - I hope this move means Salesforce is making a big push into Postgres core development.

BTW, the linked page also has some interesting notes on what the PG developers are planning to work on in upcoming releases, and is well worth a read.

Re: Tom Lane joins Salesforce.com

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Post by pvh » Wed, May 22, 2013, 11:01 PM UTC

Those of us at another arm of Salesforce ( http://postgres.heroku.com ) are incredibly honored to have Tom join the family. The team they've put together there is doing some really exciting work.

Re: Tom Lane joins Salesforce.com

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Post by willlll » Wed, May 22, 2013, 11:11 PM UTC

Tom Lane is a hero. Guy worked on TIFF, did a ton of PNG, then organized JPEG, and now does seriously awesome work on postgres, and has for some time.

He also responds to a ton of postgres mailing list emails http://www.citusdata.com/blog/57-postgresql-full-text-search

Re: Tom Lane joins Salesforce.com

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Post by surrealize » Wed, May 22, 2013, 11:49 PM UTC

willlll wrote: post #5

Tom Lane is a hero. Guy worked on TIFF, did a ton of PNG, then organized JPEG, and now does seriously awesome work on postgres, and has for some time. He also responds to a ton of postgres mailing list emails http://www.citusdata.com/blog/57-postgresql-full-text-search

Seriously! Most of what I know about relational databases, I learned by reading Tom Lane's emails to pgsql-hackers and -performance.