Re: 8.4 release planning

From: Ron Mayer <rm_pg(at)cheapcomplexdevices(dot)com>
To: Joshua Brindle <method(at)manicmethod(dot)com>
Cc: Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Ron Mayer <rm_pg(at)cheapcomplexdevices(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(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 21:40:47
Message-ID: 497F7F5F.2080301@cheapcomplexdevices.com
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Joshua Brindle wrote:
>> FWIW, as you know, sepostgresql is already included in Fedora. You can
>> continue shipping it as a seperate RPM set.
>
> That is non-ideal. Getting the capability in to the standard database
> shipped with RHEL is very important to me and my customers.

Could you speak - even in general terms - about who your customers are
and what kinds of needs (is row-level acls the most important to them?
mandantory access control at the table level? both?) they have?

I'm guessing a better understanding of how real-world users would
use this feature would be enlightening.

> Since you can turn this off with GUC I don't see why it makes sense to
> ship 2 databases (nevermind the maintenance issues)

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