Re: Call for 7.5 feature completion

On Mon, 17 May 2004, Joshua D. Drake 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.
> >
> >
> >

> So why do we wait for some of these features? The bgwriter is done
> right? Why don't we backport to 7.4.x and release with 7.4.3? What about
> the vacuum stuff Jan was doing?
>
> I guess what I am saying is, what features are in HEAD that can be
> backported to 7.4.x without the requiring of an initdb?
>
> Yes it would be breaking from the tradition of very little feature
> releases in incrementals but then again maybe that would be a good
> thing...

This has been put forward by me a couple of times in the past, and, to a
small extent, I do agree with the arguments against it ... namely, the
backporting, testing and release cycles that we'd have to adopt would
detract from forward development ...

As soon as we get to backporting features, then we have to get into
feature freezes on the "stable" branch, beta periods of testing leading to
a release, etc ...

I'd almost say that time would be better spent on coming up with an
effective upgrade method so that upgrading to new releases is easier ...

Please note that I'm not against the backporting, but do understand the
arguments against it in terms of time and manpower ...

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