Re: 8.5 development schedule

Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> Robert Haas wrote:
>> What I've seen of Heikki's work thus far has led me to believe that
>> his reasons for rejecting the patch were good ones, but I don't
>> specifically what they were.  It would be helpful, I think, to
>> reiterate them or repost links to the relevant messages in the
>> archives; it would also be great if we could get an estimate of how
>> close the patch is to being committable.  Does it still need massive
>> work, or is it getting fairly close, or what?  Are the issues code
>> cleanliness/maintainability, bugs, missing functionality?

> This is where we left off:
> http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/49A64D16.8010105@enterprisedb.com

There were adjacent remarks suggesting that large other parts of the
patch remained to be reviewed, as well.
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-02/msg01268.php
        regards, tom lane