Re: Warning about the 8.4 release

I realize the list is incomplete and inaccurate.  My point is if only
50% need work, we still have lots of work to do.

I will update my mailbox and post a new version soon.

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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> > Everyone knows about the commit fest wiki items, but I am tracking 291
> > threads that need some type of attention;  if only 50% of them are
> > significant for 8.4, that still leaves +100 items that should be
> > completed in the next month.   You can see the full list here:
> > 
> >     http://momjian.us/cgi-bin/pgpatches
> 
> I notice that some of the items in this commitfest are in your queue.
> Some things are duplicated; for example parallel restore appear more
> than once (I count six times).  Column privileges is also several
> times.
> 
> Also some patches have already been applied; for example:
> 
> Item 14, "[HACKERS] Another refactoring proposal: move stuff into
> nodes/nodeFuncs.[ch]" was applied.
> 
> Item 57, "Re: [HACKERS] autovacuum and TOAST tables" was applied.
> 
> Item 78, bug 4495 is not a memory leak
> 
> Item 79, bug 4496 is not a leak either
> 
> Item 86 was rejected
> 
> Item 103 (plpython) is a commitfest item that was returned to author
> 
> I'm not sure why is item 106 (heap_formtuple) listed?
> 
> Item 118 (pgdump roles, Ibrar Ahmed) is applied
> 
> Item 130 (PD_PAGE_FULL) is bogus; drop it
> 
> I'm not sure why you have planetpostgresql.org items?
> 
> Item 155 (toast by chunk end) can be dropped from this list; it's an unneeded patch.
> 
> Item 162 is an open item??? "cool hacks with recursive queries"
> 
> Item 166, "designated initializers" can be dropped (part of reloptions
> patch that's already committed)
> 
> Item 184 "working in the US" is a pgsql-core email, not even in the
> archives ...
> 
> Item 197, "links to cvsweb from archive" can be dropped; problem was
> fixed.  [checks] Uh, actually it is broken again.  I guess Marc upgraded
> the web server.
> 
> Item 242, "generic reloptions improvement", is applied
> 
> Item 272, "protein database", is here because ...?
> 
> Item 286 (32/64 bits) was already fixed by yourself?
> 
> -- 
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