Re: Call for 7.5 feature completion
Hans-Jürgen Schönig <postgres@cybertec.at>
From: Hans-Jürgen Schönig <postgres@cybertec.at>
To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, 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: 2004-05-17T07:11:20Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Mon, 17 May 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > >>Marc G. Fournier wrote: >> >>>>Agreed, but you are a "me too", not a huge percentage of our userbase. >>> >>>How do you know? Have you polled our complete 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. >>> >>>Most likely won't happen, since what is considered big by you isn't >>>necessarily what is considered big by someone else ... as Hannu, and I >>>believe, Jan, have so far pointed out to you ... >> >>I can't poll for everything. I make my own educated guesses. > > > Based on what though? > > 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 Somebody has posted sync multimaster replication (PgCluster) - nobody has commented on that. Maybe I am the only one who has ever tried it ... Most likely this is not very encourageing for the developers involved ... Regards, Hans -- Cybertec Geschwinde u Schoenig Schoengrabern 134, A-2020 Hollabrunn, Austria Tel: +43/720/10 1234567 or +43/664/233 90 75 www.cybertec.at, www.postgresql.at, kernel.cybertec.at