From: | Rod Taylor <pg(at)rbt(dot)ca> |
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To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> |
Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Subject: | Re: Call for 7.5 feature completion |
Date: | 2005-08-26 00:59:05 |
Message-ID: | 1125017945.36010.377.camel@home |
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On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 19:13 -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Bruce, on May 17, 2004, you wrote:
>
> > So, yea, I am frustrated. I know these features are hard and complex,
> > but I want them for PostgreSQL, and I want them as soon as possible. I
> > guess what really bugs me is that we are so close to having these few
> > remaining big features, and because they are so complex, they are taking
> > a lot longer to arrive than previous features, and sometimes see a year
> > pass without progress on some items, and that bugs me.
>
> This discussion was taking place as we closed the 7.5 development cycle,
> and we weren't getting PITR, tablespaces, nested transactions, 2PC, the
> Win32 port, in the release. We have all those things now.
>
> We have gone a long way now, even though it was only a year ago. My
> question for everyone on this list is: What are the "few remaining big
> features" that you see missing for PostgreSQL?
>
> Or, slightly different, what are people's most wanted features?
I have an immediate use for:
* Identity/generator support (per standard)
* Merge (update/insert as required)
* Multi-CPU sorts. Take a large single sort like an index creation
and split the work among multiple CPUs.
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