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Re: 8.4 release planning

Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>

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From: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Bernd Helmle <mailings@oopsware.de>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2009-01-26T16:11:16Z
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On 1/26/09, 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.  The decision we need to
>  make now is whether that release will be called 8.4 or 8.5; in the
>  former case meaning that all the stuff already in 8.4 will not reach
>  users' hands for close to a year more.

What about a compromise solution: release 8.4 now, then focus on
wrapping up the big ticket items that didn't make it into 8.4 into a
quick (as possible) 8.5 release.  This means no fests.

merlin