From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Rod Taylor <rbt(at)rbt(dot)ca>, Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Two weeks to feature freeze |
Date: | 2003-06-22 04:33:26 |
Message-ID: | 13175.1056256406@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Tom said that our low-hanging fruit is gone and only hard items are
> left. This is certainly true. What is hard to accept is that those big
> items take _weeks_ of focused development, and we just don't have enough
> full-time developers who can spend that amount of time to do them. The
> sad truth is that there is alway something _else_ to do, rather than
> block out weeks to code a complex feature. And these are usually
> features that can't be done incrementally, but require a huge input of
> time before there is any payback.
I spent weeks doing hash aggregates, weeks doing IN-subselect
optimization, and am in the middle of many weeks on FE/BE protocol
improvement. I am sorry that you don't see these as killer features
... but they are all things that we desperately needed to do.
regards, tom lane
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