Re: 9.5 release scheduling (was Re: logical column ordering)

On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 10:37:32AM -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> 2. It's not clear that we're going to have a particularly-impressive
> list of major features for 9.5.  So far we've got RLS and BRIN. I
> expect that GROUPING SETS is far enough along that it should be
> possible to get it in before development ends, and there are a few
> performance patches pending (Andres's lwlock scalability patches,
> Rahila's work on compressing full-page writes) that I think will
> probably make the grade.  But after that it seems to me that it gets
> pretty thin on the ground.  Are we going to bill commit timestamp
> tracking - with replication node ID tracking as the real goal, despite
> the name - as a major feature, or DDL deparsing if that goes in, as
> major features?  As useful as they may be for BDR, they don't strike
> me as things we can publicize as major features independent of BDR.
> And it's getting awfully late for any other major work that people are
> thinking of to start showing up.

How bad is the 9.5 feature list going to be compared to the 9.4 one that
had JSONB, but also a lot of infrastructure additions.

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