Re: 8.5 development schedule

Robert Haas wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Tom Lane<tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
>>> Robert Haas wrote:
>>>> What I've seen of Heikki's work thus far has led me to believe that
>>>> his reasons for rejecting the patch were good ones, but I don't
>>>> specifically what they were. It would be helpful, I think, to
>>>> reiterate them or repost links to the relevant messages in the
>>>> archives; it would also be great if we could get an estimate of how
>>>> close the patch is to being committable. Does it still need massive
>>>> work, or is it getting fairly close, or what? Are the issues code
>>>> cleanliness/maintainability, bugs, missing functionality?
>>> This is where we left off:
>>> http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/49A64D16.8010105@enterprisedb.com
>> There were adjacent remarks suggesting that large other parts of the
>> patch remained to be reviewed, as well.
>> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-02/msg01268.php
>
> Thanks to both of you, this is very helpful. Two other questions:
>
> 1. Are there any chunks of this functionality in this patch that seem
> like they might be able to be severed and committed separately?

I don't think so.

> 2. Was the latest version of this patch posted to the mailing list,
> and if so can you provide a link?

Yes:
http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/49A64D73.6090302@enterprisedb.com

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