Re: [HACKERS] RI status report #2

> >
> > > Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Man, that's a heap of additions.
> > >
> > >     Only the top of the iceberg :-)
> >
> > Yikes.  I was just talking to Thomas Lockhart by phone, and was saying
> > that I thought 6.6 would be a small, incremental release after the
> > changes in 6.5.*.  Obviously, 6.6 is going to be as full-featured as
> > earlier releases.
> 
>     Wasn't  it  YOU  who  asked  ME to become active again?  Your
>     above thought is a  little  silly  if  ya  really  wanted  to
>     interrupt my sleep mode ;-)

I specialize in silly.  :-)

Full-featured is good, much better than small, incremental.

I certainly interrupted your sleep mode.

> 
>     OTOH   Vadim   is   close  to  WAL  and  I  see  activity  on
>     (outer/left/right?) join support too. Maybe there wouldn't be
>     a v6.6 at all.

Do I read 7.0 in there?

>     WAL is IMHO the only real reason not to choose PostgreSQL for
>     production.  Beeing able to recover  (roll  forward)  from  a
>     backup  using  transaction  log  is  a  required  feature for
>     mission critical data. Thus, having all  this  (WAL,  FOREIGN
>     KEY  etc.)  is  a greater step forward that that between v6.4
>     and v6.5.
> 
>     If all that really materializes in  our  next  release,  it's
>     time to number it v7.0 - no?

Yes, I am starting to see 7.0 too.

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