Re: Call for 7.5 feature completion
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Hans-Jürgen Schönig <postgres@cybertec.at>
Cc: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>, Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>, Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2004-05-17T12:21:41Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hans-Jrgen Schnig wrote: > > All the clients that I deal with on a daily basis generally care about is > > performance ... that is generally what they upgrade for ... so, my > > 'educated guess' based on real world users is that Win32, PITR and nested > > transactions are not important ... tablespaces, I have one client that has > > asked about something *similar* to it, but tablespaces, for him, doesn't > > come close to what they would like to see ... > > > > So, my 'educated guess' is different then yours is ... does that make > > yours wrong? Nope ... just means we have different sample sets to work > > with ... > > > > > Interesting. > We have made COMPLETELY different experiences. > > There is one question people ask me daily: "When can we have sychronous > replication and PITR?". > Performance is not a problem here. People are more interested in > stability and "enterprise" features such as those I have mentioned above. > > I am still wondering about two things: > Somebody has posted a 2PC patch - I haven't seen too many comments He is waiting for nested transactions to be committed so he can merge his work in. > Somebody has posted sync multimaster replication (PgCluster) - nobody > has commented on that. Maybe I am the only one who has ever tried it ... I think it should be on gborg. -- 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