Re: Recovery Test Framework

On 2009-01-12, at 16:48, Dave Page wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Joshua D. Drake
> <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
>> On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 11:18 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>>
>>> Basically I think we are up against the same type of project
>>> management
>>> decision we've had several times before: are we willing to slip the
>>> 8.4 release schedule for however long it will take for hot standby
>>> and the other replication-related features to be ready?
>>
>> I would certainly not like to see 8.4 slip.
>
> I would. PostgreSQL is not a commercial application which has to be
> released on schedule to satisfy shareholders - it's an Open Source
> project that aims to provide it's users with useful features. We have
> two extremely useful features here (hot standby and sync replication)
> which together will make this a killer release for many people - we
> can delay a month or two as required to polish and get them ready for
> release, or decide we're willing to wait another 12 - 14 months for
> them to be available for end users.
>
> I'd much rather see them included than deferred (particularly hot
> standby, parts of which have been awaiting review for months now
> anyway, through no fault of Simons).

+1