> “While I appreciate PostgreSQL every day, am I the only one who thinks this is a rather bad idea?” – top HackerNews comment on our launch (link)
I know it's popular to bash the HackerNews hivemind, and often it's honestly deserved, but this line is in bad taste. The comment was not only polite and professional, it was also right. They had to introduce a columnar storage format (hypertables) to make it work. That is exactly what the comment and the follow-up cocmment suggest.
That's fair. We referenced that quote because it captured a lot of the skepticism in the early days (and because that comment is public). No hard feelings though!
That’s fair, but I would never point out a single individual over this, even if they were really mean about it. It’s just not a good look.
Together with the other paragraph with the bashing of the competition this just looks like your company starts to develop an echo chamber where you’re internally so fine with speaking like that, that it leaks out to the public. For comparison, at my company we don’t even speak about our competition like that internally. Let your readers come to the conclusion that you’re better than the competition by showing the necessary facts only.
I know it's popular to bash the HackerNews hivemind, and often it's honestly deserved, but this line is in bad taste. The comment was not only polite and professional, it was also right. They had to introduce a columnar storage format (hypertables) to make it work. That is exactly what the comment and the follow-up cocmment suggest.