> >
> > > Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Man, that's a heap of additions.
> > >
> > > Only the top of the iceberg :-)
> >
> > Yikes. I was just talking to Thomas Lockhart by phone, and was saying
> > that I thought 6.6 would be a small, incremental release after the
> > changes in 6.5.*. Obviously, 6.6 is going to be as full-featured as
> > earlier releases.
>
> Wasn't it YOU who asked ME to become active again? Your
> above thought is a little silly if ya really wanted to
> interrupt my sleep mode ;-)
I specialize in silly. :-)
Full-featured is good, much better than small, incremental.
I certainly interrupted your sleep mode.
>
> OTOH Vadim is close to WAL and I see activity on
> (outer/left/right?) join support too. Maybe there wouldn't be
> a v6.6 at all.
Do I read 7.0 in there?
> WAL is IMHO the only real reason not to choose PostgreSQL for
> production. Beeing able to recover (roll forward) from a
> backup using transaction log is a required feature for
> mission critical data. Thus, having all this (WAL, FOREIGN
> KEY etc.) is a greater step forward that that between v6.4
> and v6.5.
>
> If all that really materializes in our next release, it's
> time to number it v7.0 - no?
Yes, I am starting to see 7.0 too.
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