Re: Call for 7.5 feature completion

Greg Copeland wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 09:30, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
>
>>On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 02:46:38PM -0400, Jan Wieck wrote:
>>
>>
>>>fact that checkpoints, vacuum runs and pg_dumps bog down their machines
>>>to the state where simple queries take several seconds care that much
>>>for any Win32 port? Do you think it is a good sign for those who have
>>
>>Yes. I am one such person, but from the marketing side of things, I
>>understand perfectly well what failing to deliver on Win32 again will
>>cost. It's not important to _me_, but that doesn't mean it's
>>unimportant to the project.
>>
>
>
> My primary fear about delivering Win32 with all of these other great
> features is that, IMO, there is a higher level of risk associated with
> these advanced features. At the same time, this will be the first trial
> for many Win32 users. Should there be some problems, in general, or
> worse, specific to Win32 users as it relates to these new features, it
> could cost some serious Win32/PostgreSQL community points. A troubled
> release which is experienced by Win32 users is going to be a battle cry
> for MySQL.

I believe that the very first Win32 native version will be declared "not
realy ready for production", am I wrong ?

Regards
Gaetano Mendola