Re: Call for 7.5 feature completion

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>
Cc: Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Call for 7.5 feature completion
Date: 2004-05-17 00:16:09
Message-ID: 200405170016.i4H0G9811883@candle.pha.pa.us
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Hannu Krosing wrote:
> > Sure, you can work around the lack of a Win32 port with Cygwin, and
> > maybe use replication in place of PITR, but the big question is are you
> > hitting a large precentage of users with an enhancement.
>
> I'm not sure that the initial version of PITR will be a good replacement
> for replication.
>
> > I am sure i
> > can get some "me too's" for your improvements, but it doesn't represeent
> > dramatic new functionality for PostgreSQL.
>
> For me the vacuum delay *does* represent a "dramatic new functionality"
> and I was quite disappointed that the simple version did not make it into 7.4.

Agreed, but you are a "me too", not a huge percentage of our userbase.

Basically, after 6-7 months of development, I want more than a vacuum
patch and a new cache replacement policy. I want something big, in
fact, several big things.

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