Re: 8.4 release planning

Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, jd@commandprompt.com, Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date: 2009-01-28T13:59:40Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Robert Haas wrote:
>> I think the best thing we could do overall is to set release dates and
>> stick to them.  If your patch is not ready, well, at least it will get
>> out in a defined amount of time.  Right now, the *real* problem with it
>> being pushed to the next release is you don't know how successful some
>> other guy will be at persuading us to delay the next release.
> 
> +1, LOL.
> 
> Let's not forget that we've already got CTE, window functions, partial
> vacuums, and column-level permissions, all of which are major features
> that should benefit a lot of people.  I hope Hot Standby gets
> committed but even if it doesn't, I'm still going to get a lot of
> benefit out of this release, so I'd like it to happen on some sort of
> reasonable time scale.

Agreed. Even without HS, this will be one of the biggest releases we've
had in a while, IMHO.

//Magnus