Re: 7.4 features list - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Rob Butler
Subject Re: 7.4 features list
Date
Msg-id 002001c31379$31655180$0802a8c0@coderhp
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In response to 7.4 features list  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
List pgsql-hackers
Somewhere in this thread it was mentioned that postgres-r master-slave will
be delayed to 7.5 because of it's lack of funding.  How far delayed would
Postgres-r be?

I want both Postgres-r & win32 asap...  So.. If PITR, win32 and Postgres-r
will be done soon, but not soon enough to be in 7.4 why not get 7.4 out with
what you have already (start the feature freeze early even) and then get a
7.5 out shortly afterwards?  (say 4 months after, instead of 6?)

That would also help with the perception people have of Postgres  (The whole
"have we lost momentum" thread).  If postgres can be seen getting a number
of releases out quickly, with major new (well tested, stable) features in
each, that will definetly help Postgres' momentum as percieved by the world.

Later
Rob


> On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 21:08:37 +0100,
>   "Nigel J. Andrews" <nandrews@investsystems.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > I've wondered recently at other mentions of the impending feature freeze
and
> > wondering why that appears to have been set in stone. I know from
comments
> > leading to 7.3 that there have been problems in the past with timetable
> > slippage but is it really sensible to essentially throw out a major
feature
> > that will take another 6+ months to be released for the sake of a short
delay
> > for the coming release?
>
> There is already a lot of good stuff in 7.4. In my opinion what there is
> enough to justify a release even without PITR or the WIN32 port.
> That isn't to say that it isn't worth waiting a little to save some
> testing effort (if say a 7.5 were to come out very shortly after 7.4
> with the WIN32 port or PITR), but if it is really going to be a couple
> of extra months some consideration should be given to getting the stuff
> you already have out to people.
>
>
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