Re: What's planned for 7.5?

On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Martin Marques wrote:

> Mensaje citado por ow <oneway_111(at)yahoo(dot)com>:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is this all that's planned for 7.5? (based on current TODO list)
> >
> > -Change factorial to return a numeric (Gavin)
> > -COMMENT ON [ CAST | CONVERSION | OPERATOR CLASS | LARGE OBJECT | LANGUAGE ]
> > (Christopher)
> > -Have psql \dn show only visible temp schemas using current_schemas()
> > -Have psql '\i ~/<tab><tab>' actually load files it displays from home dir
> > -Allow psql \du to show groups, and add \dg for groups
> > -Allow pg_dump to dump CREATE CONVERSION (Christopher)
> > -Use dependency information to dump data in proper order
> > -Use background process to write dirty shared buffers to disk
>
> For what I have just seen in Robert Treats "PostgreSQL Weekly News" most of
> these issues are already solved in the CVS, and I guess that in a bit less than
> a year that's left for the release of 7.5 many new things will appear.
>
> Anyway, from http://developer.postgresql.org/todo.php I see in the URGENT part
> this:
>
> # Add replication of distributed databases [replication]
>
> * Automatic failover
> * Load balancing
> * Master/slave replication
> * Multi-master replication
> * Partition data across servers
> * Queries across databases or servers (two-phase commit)
> * Allow replication over unreliable or non-persistent links
> * http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/pgreplication/projdisplay.php
>
> # Point-in-time data recovery using backup and write-ahead log
> # Create native Win32 port,
> * http://momjian.postgresql.org/main/writings/pgsql/win32.html
>
> The first isn't new, but as for what I know, it's a new aproach that Jan has for
> adding replication to the server.

Nope, pgreplication has nothing to do with Jan ... he's working on
Slonik-1 ...

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