Hi, With due acknowledgement of what Eddie Wong does for Drupal, I am now going public because this can not continue: Eddie, your followups most of the time are not relevant to the issue, and they are way too long. I am asking you in public to change -- please make your point in one or two sentences if at all possible and only if it is about the issue at hand. I asked this before in various issues without any effect. (To be more concrete: just what does clustering to with my db_lower patch??) I am quoting people from #drupal who also happens to work on the database layer (not me): Q: "Who is hswong3i, and why is he so obsessed with commercial clustering solutions?" A: "[...] he's so focused on Oracle to the exclusion of everything else, even when he then proposes patches that make life difficult for everyone except Oracle users, that I have to try hard to not oppose Oracle support on principle." Kind regards, NK Ps. To make sure, I BCC'd Eddie -- sorry if you got two copies.