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Re: 7.4?

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>, Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>, Ericson Smith <eric@did-it.com>, Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>, Dmitry Tkach <dmitry@openratings.com>, PostgreSQL General <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Date: 2003-03-06T16:48:25Z
Lists: pgsql-general 
Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> > Neil Conway writes:
> >> I'd be quite surprised to see this in 7.4. Not that I wouldn't love to
> >> have someone contribute it -- I just wouldn't bet on it being in 7.4 if
> >> the beta date is around the middle of April.
> 
> > When someone says that beta is planned April-ish, that means beta will be
> > in June and the final release will be in September.  Mark my words.
> 
> If all three of these changes (Windows port, pitr, replication) get in
> before feature freeze, I wouldn't want to bet that final will be any
> sooner than that --- we'll have lots of testing to do.
> 
> But we *will* freeze 7.4 features in April, and at the rate work appears
> to be progressing, I wouldn't want to bet that any of these features
> will be in by then ;-).  If they don't make the cut, 7.4 final will
> probably be a lot sooner than September.

Also, as discussed in 7.3, I vote against a feature freeze that is
significantly earlier (>2 weeks) from the start of beta.  We did that
for 7.2, and it paralized the end of the developement period.

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