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Re: 8.4 release planning

Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>

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From: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
To: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Cc: Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, David Fetter <david@fetter.org>, "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>, "Jonah H. Harris" <jonah.harris@gmail.com>, Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Bernd Helmle <mailings@oopsware.de>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Date: 2009-01-28T13:57:57Z
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Josh Berkus wrote:
> 
>> That's modest. I've talked to several oracle and db2 shops that want a
>> standby for reporting that has relatively easy setup/maintenance
>> (handling ddl is a big part of this) and the HS feature your working
>> on will give them something as good as what they are getting now. So
>> yeah, HS appeals to future users as well.  
> 
> I've talked to some of my clients, and while they *want* synch or
> near-synch HS, even slow HS is useful to them *now*.
> 
> One client is planning on deploying a rather complex FS cloning
> infrastructure just to have a bunch of reporting, testing and read-only
> search databases they need.  They'd be thrilled with an HS feature which
> produced DBs which were an hour out of date (or even 6 hours out of
> date), but ran read-only queries.

I have a lot of clients who would be thrilled to have stuff that's been
in our tree for half a year by now, and they'd be thrilled to have it
*now*. How much extra should we have them wait for the needs of your
clients?


(Yes, I have clients now who would very much like HS as well, of course,
but that's not the point)


//Magnus