Re: Call for 7.5 feature completion
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>
Cc: Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2004-05-17T00:16:09Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
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. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073