Re: 8.4 release planning

Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> Put another way, the choice here is whether to have a half-baked delayed 8.4
> release in 6 months or a polished on-time 8.5 release in 12 months. Either way
> the feature ships and on a not terribly different timeline either.

This is pretty much exactly how I see it.  *Hot standby is not ready*,
and committing it into 8.4 isn't going to magically make that better.
The earliest we are going to have a HS feature that I would trust my
data to is probably ten-twelve months off.  The decision we need to
make now is whether that release will be called 8.4 or 8.5; in the
former case meaning that all the stuff already in 8.4 will not reach
users' hands for close to a year more.
        regards, tom lane