Re: Call for 7.5 feature completion

Mario Weilguni wrote:

>> 
>> 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 doubt that. Having deployed several 7.4 databases, the first customers ask 
> (of course not in technical speech, but in the meaning) when the problem with 
> checkpoint hogging system down is solved. This is a really serious issue, 
> especially when using drbd + ext3. The system will become really unresponsive 
> when checkpoint is running.
> 
> I heavily await 7.5 because of the background writer.

Have you done some more extensive tests with 7.5 already and if so, what 
are your experiences with it so far?


Jan

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