Re: Big 7.4 items

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I wanted to outline some of the big items we are looking at for 7.4:
>
> Win32 Port:
>
> Katie Ward and Jan are working on contributing their Win32
> port for 7.4. They plan to have a patch available by the end of
> December.
>
> Point-In-Time Recovery (PITR)
>
> J. R. Nield did a PITR patch late in 7.3 development, and Patrick
> MacDonald from Red Hat is working on merging it into CVS and
> adding any missing pieces. Patrick, do you have an ETA on that?
>
> Replication
>
> I have talked to Darren Johnson and I believe 7.4 is the time to
> merge the Postgres-R source tree into our main CVS. Most of the
> replication code will be in its own directory, with only minor
> changes to our existing tree. They have single-master
> replication working now, so we may have that feature in some
> capacity for 7.4. I know others are working on replication
> solutions. This is probably the time to decide for certain if
> this is the direction we want to go for replication. Most who
> have have studied Postgres-R feel it is the most promising
> multi-master replication solution for reliably networked hosts.
>
> Comments?

What about distributed TX support:

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