Re: 8.4 release planning (was Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Automatic view update rules)

On Sunday 25 January 2009 19:06:50 Tom Lane wrote:
> Particularly with regard to hot standby, which by any sane reading was
> not close to being committable on 1 November (a fortiori from the fact
> that it's *still* not committable despite large amounts of later work).
> I'm also feeling that we are not in a position to commit SE-Postgres in
> a timely fashion; which is not KaiGai-san's fault, rather that of the
> community which has taken nearly zero interest in that patch.
>
> If we want to ensure that 8.5 development opens soon, what we have to do
> is reject those two patches, revert updatable views, and finish up the
> other stuff (which is all small and could likely be dealt with in a week
> or two).

Updatable views is reverted.  I agree that we should reject the rest and 
prepare a release.