Re: Call for 7.5 feature completion - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Call for 7.5 feature completion
Date
Msg-id 200405170016.i4H0G9811883@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Call for 7.5 feature completion  (Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>)
Responses Re: Call for 7.5 feature completion  ("Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>)
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Hannu Krosing wrote:
> > Sure, you can work around the lack of a Win32 port with Cygwin, and
> > maybe use replication in place of PITR, but the big question is are you
> > hitting a large precentage of users with an enhancement.
> 
> I'm not sure that the initial version of PITR will be a good replacement
> for replication.
> 
> > I am sure i
> > can get some "me too's" for your improvements, but it doesn't represeent
> > dramatic new functionality for PostgreSQL.
> 
> For me the vacuum delay *does* represent a "dramatic new functionality"
> and I was quite disappointed that the simple version did not make it into 7.4.

Agreed, but you are a "me too", not a huge percentage of our userbase.

Basically, after 6-7 months of development, I want more than a vacuum
patch and a new cache replacement policy.  I want something big, in
fact, several big things.

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