Neil,
> It might be worth waiting till the set of features that will actually be
> in 8.2 is well-defined -- that is, until the patch queue has been
> cleared (circa the end of August). For example, updateable views and
> bitmap indexes may or may not make it into the release, last I checked.
We can swap out individual features as things are finalized. The
feature part of the release actually requires less work than some of the
other parts.
Historically, it's taken about a month to compose the release and a
month or more to translate it. So we can't wait until the beginning of
August to start in case we have a short beta.
> There's been quite a lot of useful performance work: off the top of my
> head, Tom's work on SMP scalability, for example. I'd expect Tom's outer
> join query optimization work will help a lot of people. The improvements
> to sorting performance are also likely to be significant. I don't have
> figures, although we can surely produce some before the release if need
> be.
Yes -- volunteers? Anyone? I have some figures from Sun but I'm not
sure I can publish them.
> Online index builds will be very useful for some people.
Oh, right.
--Josh
