Re: 8.4 release planning

Rick Vernam <rickv@hobi.com>

From: Rick Vernam <rickv@hobi.com>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2009-01-26T22:03:16Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Monday 26 January 2009 2:12:02 pm Tom Lane wrote:
> Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
> > So, some feedback to make this decision more difficult:
> >
> > Users: care about HS more than anything else in the world.
>
> I don't think this is correct.  There are certainly a lot of users who
> would like an in-core replication solution, but HS by itself is not that
> --- you also need (near) real-time log shipping, which we have already
> decided to punt to 8.5.
Precisely.  Thank you.

> That being the case, I think the argument that HS is a must-have feature for 
8.4 is actually rather weak.
I am just one person, representing one company...but I do agree, fwiw.