Re: 7.4 features list

On Monday 05 May 2003 2:02 pm, Thomas Kellerer wrote:
> Bruce Momjian schrieb:
> > I am continuing on the work, but I am now uncertain I can complete by
> > code freeze in Mid-May, or even by the end of May.
> >
> > I am unsure what we should do:
> >
> >     delay code freeze
> >     allow Win32 patches during beta
> >     delay Win32 for 7.5
>
> I'm just a "normal" user, but I'd like to throw in my to 2cents as well...

As another "normal" user I'll throw in my $.02 as well. PostgreSQL is a
wonderfully stable database server that runs on top of a number of
wonderfully stable OSs. We have several servers running here and see
absolutely no point in converting to Windows as we would have to pay more and
as far as I can tell I switching PostgreSQL to Windows would not give us any
improvements.

We are very interested, however, in PITR and replication as it would save us
a great deal of the effort we currently spend to roll our own redundancy
schemes.

Effort toward PITR, replication and other features moves PostgreSQL forward.
Win32 porting merely spreads limited resources thinner.

So when everyone thinks that there are no significant improvements to be made
or features to be added to PostgreSQL then by all means, start porting. Just
not before.

Cheers,
Steve