Doug Ledford <[email protected]> writes:
> Limitations, yes. Current state, no. You can't make a policy to do the
> impossible and expect it to just happen. But you *can* make a policy to
> do the very hard and seemingly impossible and make it happen. To that
> end I reference the fact that man has in fact been to the moon and it
> was a policy mandate by two competing governments that caused us (as a
> species) to do the work to get there.
Correction: it was a policy mandate plus the expenditure of a lot of
billions of dollars that got us to the moon.
>> It doesn't make
>> sense to enact a policy which cannot be realized due to technical
>> limitations, or whose realization causes unsolvable problems. The technical
>> details are essential.
> You only need enough details to know that it isn't impossible, not
> enough to know the exact route to get to the end goal.
You also need the resources to make it happen. A mandate from FESCO
is not worth diddly-squat unless FESCO is prepared to do the work.
regards, tom lane
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