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It has been pointed out before, but I'll mention again. It is impressive how PostreSQL community reacted. There was no immature name calling, no blaming users. They analyze the problem, mention possible solutions, admit known shortcomings and so on. This is a community worth being a part of and engineers worth working with.

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I completely agree. It's human nature to become defensive when presented with conflict with your current way of thinking, and yet here they didn't do that.

I thought that this article was a very well reasoned and thoughtful response to the Uber article and gives me hope that PostgreSQL will continue to improve.

> "It's human nature"

Rather than making difficult-to-prove statements about humans that imply some sort of just moral backing for behavior, perhaps we should just refer to it as "something [lots of] people do."

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