Re: 8.4 release planning

From: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>, Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Bernd Helmle <mailings(at)oopsware(dot)de>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: 8.4 release planning
Date: 2009-01-27 15:38:50
Message-ID: 20090127153850.GJ13852@fetter.org
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On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 03:12:02PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes:
> > So, some feedback to make this decision more difficult:
>
> > Users: care about HS more than anything else in the world.
>
> I don't think this is correct.

I do.

People literally grab my shoulder and ask when we'll have it. I've
never seen anything like the interest in this for any database
feature, including the fairies-and-unicorns multi-master replication
people imagine will scale linearly in every dimension by plugging in
nodes.

Cheers,
David.
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