> that's just how it works.

And maybe that's just how it shouldn't. Technology moves fast, very fast. Markets do so. Users, you get it. Competing technologies, undeniably.

To delay a discussion for months just because the source is not published is in my opinion only reflecting on part of the opportunity/problem. I'm calling for an strategic discussion, which is higher level than a code-only, limited, partial analysis.

> Have you considered the possibility that it might actually be neither of those two things?

Sure thing, like anything in life, it may be neither. But what I know for sure is that a) we as the PostgreSQL Community need to mitigate risks and plan for them; b) leverage (or transform into!) opportunities as soon as we identify them.