Re: 9.3 Beta 1 Coming Soon!

From: Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)fr>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: 9.3 Beta 1 Coming Soon!
Date: 2013-04-16 08:31:17
Message-ID: m24nf6vpuy.fsf@2ndQuadrant.fr
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Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com> writes:
> On 15 April 2013 23:23, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> * declarative matviews
>> * event triggers
>
> Regrettably the state of both of those features is nowhere near
> complete enough for wide production use. Highlighting them as tier 1
> items would be misleading. If there is a way to say these are good
> steps towards the full feature set people expect then it will work.
> Initial, basic, entry level etc.. (Note that I'm not commenting on the
> internal implementation, just the user facing feature set).

Yes, please don't mention Event Triggers anywhere. You can not solve a
single problem with them that you couldn't already solve before with a
hook, and you need to be using C to access any interesting data.

As a user, Event Triggers just don't exist in 9.3, full stop.

Regards,
--
Dimitri Fontaine
http://2ndQuadrant.fr PostgreSQL : Expertise, Formation et Support

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