I'm not resorting to mockery. I'm sympathizing with the original article's pain. Everything worthwhile in Postgresql involves major downtime and pain to adopt.

I'm not resorting to mockery. I'm sympathizing with the original article's pain. Everything worthwhile in Postgresql involves major downtime and pain to adopt. It's not nearly as seamless as other RDBMS. That was his point, and that is mine. I use checksums as an example, but it is relevant to major version upgrades and other feature introductions. I don't understand why it takes 4 releases before a tool like pg_checksum becomes available after the larger feature is introduced. If the whole thing isn't ready, don't release it. I'm not saying it's easy. I never said it was.