Re: 8.4 release planning (was Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Automatic view update rules)

Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> writes:
> Not basing our release schedule on our commitments to shareholders is
> an entirely different thing to treating sponsors of major features
> like crap by arbitrarily bouncing the patches they've paid to have
> properly developed within the community process with no good reason.

Nobody has suggested bouncing HS; there is only a debate about how soon
it's likely to be appliable. Any company who imagined they had a
guarantee about it getting into 8.4 is simply misguided.

As for SEPostgres, I think that bouncing it entirely is quite a possible
outcome, but that's because there does not appear to be adequate
interest to justify taking on a major maintenance burden (and anyone who
thinks it won't be a major burden is equally misguided --- at the very
least it will be an endless source of bug reports that we'll be forced
to classify as security issues, with all the hoop-leaping that that
entails). We are not bound to accept features that are only wanted by a
small number of users, no matter how badly those users want them.

regards, tom lane