Re: 8.5 release timetable, again - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Robert Haas
Subject Re: 8.5 release timetable, again
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Msg-id 603c8f070908241426y6c3ce560u2469bab326de0f5@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: 8.5 release timetable, again  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Responses Re: 8.5 release timetable, again  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Bruce Momjian<bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas wrote:
>> As I've said before, I am presently of the opinion that Streaming
>> Replication has little chance of making it into 8.5.  This opinion is
>> vulnerable to contrary evidence, like a new version of the patch
>> showing up that shows massive progress.  But the patch was bounced
>> from CF 2009-07 for a whole series of architectural problems which
>> have to be addressed before we can even get to implementation details,
>> bugs, documentation, etc.  Hot Standby is in better shape but amount
>> of code cleanup needed is substantial and there is also quite a bit of
>> 'git diff master | grep XXX' that needs to be gone through.
>
> I agree.  I think it is unlikely we will have anything ready to commit
> for Streaming Replication or Hot Standby for the next commit-fest in
> mid-September, and if we go for a 3-CF (commit fest) release, that gives
> us only one final CF to get those features accepted, again unlikely.  We
> are either going to need to go to a 4-CF release, change the way we are
> developing these patches, or both to get either in 8.5.

I don't think a 4-CF release is going to help.  It's just going to be
2 more months before everything else that has been done gets released.Call me a pessimist if you will, but zero times
anarbitrary number 
of CommitFests is still zero.

The only solution here is to get more people working on these patches.I have volunteered to work on HS and would also
bewilling to work on 
SR.  Work can be reviewing or actual code.  But I cannot work on a
patch I cannot see, and neither can anyone else.

...Robert


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