Re: Call for 7.5 feature completion

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, Mike Mascari <mascarm(at)mascari(dot)com>, Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Call for 7.5 feature completion
Date: 2004-05-18 18:54:34
Message-ID: 200405181854.i4IIsYd06453@candle.pha.pa.us
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> >Except you miss one key point here ... if Bruce/Tom/Jan have that sort of
> >time, why aren't they doing it now?
> >
> >
> Well I think you might of missed his point. His point was if he could
> pick their priorities. I would kind
> of agree with Robert except that there are other dynamics involved...
> Jan works for Afilias thus does
> what Afilias directs him to do and what that is right now is Slony-I.
>
> Tom works for RedHat but from what I can tell is basically a rogue agent

I like the "rogue agent". I want to be one too. :-)

> ;). However if Tom stops
> works what he is doing to help with PITR etc... I think a lot of the
> innner world of PostgreSQL would
> simply stop (if I am wrong please correct me). Bruce --- well what can
> you say about Bruce ;).
>
> Seriously though, we all have the roles that we play. I don't think
> redirecting specific resources to other
> resources will help beyond slowing up the original resources.

Tom is actually working on doing the fsync change for Win32 and to
remove the unix dependency on sync, so in a way he is on the Win32 train
right now.

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