Re: Call for 7.5 feature completion

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Hans-Jürgen Schönig <postgres(at)cybertec(dot)at>
Cc: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>, Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, 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 12:21:41
Message-ID: 200405171221.i4HCLfM09464@candle.pha.pa.us
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Hans-Jrgen Schnig wrote:
> > All the clients that I deal with on a daily basis generally care about is
> > performance ... that is generally what they upgrade for ... so, my
> > 'educated guess' based on real world users is that Win32, PITR and nested
> > transactions are not important ... tablespaces, I have one client that has
> > asked about something *similar* to it, but tablespaces, for him, doesn't
> > come close to what they would like to see ...
> >
> > So, my 'educated guess' is different then yours is ... does that make
> > yours wrong? Nope ... just means we have different sample sets to work
> > with ...
> >
>
>
> Interesting.
> We have made COMPLETELY different experiences.
>
> There is one question people ask me daily: "When can we have sychronous
> replication and PITR?".
> Performance is not a problem here. People are more interested in
> stability and "enterprise" features such as those I have mentioned above.
>
> I am still wondering about two things:
> Somebody has posted a 2PC patch - I haven't seen too many comments

He is waiting for nested transactions to be committed so he can merge
his work in.

> Somebody has posted sync multimaster replication (PgCluster) - nobody
> has commented on that. Maybe I am the only one who has ever tried it ...

I think it should be on gborg.

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