Re: Big 7.4 items

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I wanted to outline some of the big items we are looking at for 7.4:
> 
> Win32 Port:
> 
> 	Katie Ward and Jan are working on contributing their Win32
> 	port for 7.4.  They plan to have a patch available by the end of
> 	December.
> 
> Point-In-Time Recovery (PITR)
> 
> 	J. R. Nield did a PITR patch late in 7.3 development, and Patrick
> 	MacDonald from Red Hat is working on merging it into CVS and
> 	adding any missing pieces.  Patrick, do you have an ETA on that?
> 
> Replication
> 
> 	I have talked to Darren Johnson and I believe 7.4 is the time to
> 	merge the Postgres-R source tree into our main CVS.  Most of the
> 	replication code will be in its own directory, with only minor
> 	changes to our existing tree.  They have single-master
> 	replication working now, so we may have that feature in some
> 	capacity for 7.4.  I know others are working on replication
> 	solutions.  This is probably the time to decide for certain if
> 	this is the direction we want to go for replication.  Most who
> 	have have studied Postgres-R feel it is the most promising
> 	multi-master replication solution for reliably networked hosts.
> 
> Comments?

What about distributed TX support:

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Mike Mascari
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