Re: First Draft of 8.2 Release

[Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>]

Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> 
> > Also, you mentioned Full Disjunctions, which doesn't look like it will
> > be in 8.2, and because it is so unusual, you would have to explain why
> > it is so great, and given the lack of community people saying it is
> > great, I am unsure if it even should be mentioned if it is on pgfoundry.
> 
> This one I do not agree with. We don't have to explain it beyond a 
> single sentence, people can do their own research on if they need it. 
> This is PR :). Full Disjunctions falls directly into the Most Advanced 
> Open Source Database arena (and considering Ingres is open source we 
> have to fight for this).
> 
> Frankly there are several projects on pgFoundry that need some advocacy 
> on this release including:
> 
> Full Disjunctions
> .Npgsql (if it hits 1.0)
> Orafce
> 
> Possibly some reiteration around:
> 
> pljava
> pgpool

Agreed, but we better mention it is on pgfoundry rather than in the main
code.

> These are all items that greatly enhance the usability and functionality 
> argument.
> 
> 
> > 
> > Also, we don't have some items in CVS like bitmapped indexes, so those
> > might need to be removed as the feature list solidifies.
> > 
> 
> I thought bitmapped indexes had been reviewed? eek...

We don't even have a final patch for it.  Because we are dealing with
other patches we aren't pushing on the submitter at this time.

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