Re: 8.4 release planning

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com> writes:
>> Put another way, the choice here is whether to have a half-baked delayed 8.4
>> release in 6 months or a polished on-time 8.5 release in 12 months. Either way
>> the feature ships and on a not terribly different timeline either.
>
> This is pretty much exactly how I see it.  *Hot standby is not ready*,
> and committing it into 8.4 isn't going to magically make that better.
> The earliest we are going to have a HS feature that I would trust my
> data to is probably ten-twelve months off.

So can you give us an idea of what parts of the code are in need of
rethinking etc? I assume you've looked at it now if you can estimate
it's going to take another 10 -12 months?

I ask because I've only seen Heikki doing any in depth public review,
and he suggested a couple of weeks for the outstanding issues he's
aware of.

If there are fundamental problems which will take 10 - 12 months to
resolve to our normal standards, then I do believe 8.5 would be more
appropriate.

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Dave Page
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