Re: Streaming replication and postmaster signaling

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>>> I am tempted to say we should clamp down and go into damage control
>>> mode sooner rather than later.
>> 
>> The more I see of the HS patch, the more I think the same. �But my
>> proposal for "damage control mode" would be to immediately punt
>> everything else to the next release and focus our energies exclusively
>> on HS *and* SR.

> Hmm.  There's something to what you say, but what about the people who
> were expecting their patches to be reviewed and perhaps committed in
> the forthcoming CommitFest.  I proposed a schedule for this release
> that involved only three CommitFests and it was rejected, so it seems
> a bit unfair to pull the rug out from under people at the eleventh
> hour.  Will we lose developers if we do this?

Well, I think we should put at least some effort into clearing out
the underbrush.  There's a lot of pretty small stuff in the January CF
list that I think we could go through in a short time.  The biggies,
IMO, are the ones you noted:

> Unfortunately, there are some patches that I probably will not feel
> confident to commit without your input - in particular, writeable
> CTEs, listen/notify, more frame options in window functions -

and Teodor's GIN/GIST stuff.  If we feel that we are in schedule
trouble I think that bumping these to the next release is by far
the sanest response.  Bumping SR so we can get these in would be
completely misguided.
        regards, tom lane