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PostgreSQL deserves better than libpq

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Background https://bitbucket.org/tildeslash/libzdb/src/b38570e6190312d9...

I can't see the commit diff in my mobile browser, well done Atlassian.

Could you perhaps provide more context beyond a link?

Click on "Full commit"?

Ah thanks, that worked.

Usability problem is still Atlassian's responsibility.

They added the addictive "superior" to describe mysqls implementation in their docs. That's the entire change. No code changes. Seems like a petty change antithetical to good documentation.

By mistake, I used a link to an insignificant commit while I was attempting to link to this comment block with more context.

https://bitbucket.org/tildeslash/libzdb/src/master/src/db/po...

The whole diff in that (pointless?) commit...:

  * Note: Due to design limitations in both libpq and PostgreSQL's

- * architecture, this implementation does not support the memory-bounded

- * streaming behavior available with MySQL and Oracle.

+ * architecture, this implementation does not support the superior

+ * memory-bounded streaming behavior we use with MySQL and Oracle.

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