Re: 8.2 features status

Gavin Sherry wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > Gavin Sherry wrote:
> > > On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > My outlook is that it isn't a lot of _new_ things that you couldn't do
> > > > before, but rather improvements of existing functionality.
> > >
> > > It seems as though the majority of things on Tom's list are new things you
> > > couldn't do (at all easily) before.
> >
> > To me new things are like PITR, Win32, savepoints, two-phase commit,
> > partitioned tables, tablespaces. These are from 8.0 and 8.1. What is
> > there in 8.2 like that?
>
> Well, GIN and some of the unreviewed stuff (bitmaps, plpgsql debugger,
> updateable views) are in the same league as the stuff in 8.0 in terms of
> user demand and catching up with competitors, I think.
>
> A lot of the things on Tom's list are new bits of functionality to things
> added around 8.0 and 8.1 (major enhancements to the usability of
> constraint exclusion, for example). We knew then that these needed
> additional functionality to fill them out and make them useful to a wide
> range of people. Ideally we'd have both at each release but reality
> doesn't work like that.

Yes, that is my point. It is a "usability" release. Nothing wrong with
that. In fact, some people asked me if we were still doing things for
ordinary users rather than just doing enterprise functionality.

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