> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nigel J. Andrews [mailto:nandrews@investsystems.co.uk] 
> Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 1:30 PM
> To: Dann Corbit
> Cc: scott.marlowe; Bruce Momjian; Tom Lane; Jason Earl; 
> PostgreSQL-development
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Two weeks to feature freeze
[snip]
> So you've never worked on a project where the data is of high 
> value, since in those circumstances the customer is always 
> going to apply their own acceptance testing anyway. If you 
> think that doesn't happen you try sitting through 2 solid 
> days of Y2k testing on _one_ system and tell me customers 
> never do their own testing.

Here's an old copy of my resume.  You be the judge:
ftp://cap.connx.com/C.A.P.%20Biographies/DannCorbit.htm#_Toc441048186

The burden of reliablity testing must not rest solely on the end user.
That constitutes negligence on the part of the software vendor
(IMO-YMMV).

> > Therefore, I am going to stop harping on it.
> 
> But there is no need to, as has been mentioned before, if the 
> testing is not upto your level of testing submit something 
> that makes it so. Having said that I do believe you mentioned 
> that you didn't have the time to create something but you 
> would be happy to test it, i.e. test the test.

I may or may not have time to work on a software test system for
PostgreSQL.  I do a lot of PostgreSQL work here, and at some point I
think I will have valuable contributions to the project.

Mon, 23 Jun 2003 13:34:11 -0700
"Dann Corbit" <DCorbit@connx.com>
Re: Two weeks to feature freeze