Re: 9.0: Too many features. Help us choose!

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 09:55:50AM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 1:47 AM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > So I'm compiling this, and I was surprised to see that a lot of people
> > didn't consider the overhauled LISTEN/NOTIFY to be a major feature.  For
> > those who voted "not a major feature", what was the reasoning?  I'm curious.
>
> I don't remember what I put in for that, but here's how I thought on a
> number of cases. The LISTEN/NOTIFY improvements are important to
> people who have been using postgresql for a long time, and use it in a
> way that's not all that common these days (look, ma, no ORM!). For an
> *outsider*, it's completely irrelevant - they didn't know there was a
> problem before (unlike vacuum which people have heard of forever,
> nobody has heard of issues with listen/notify), so it looks more like
> trying to push something because we didn't have enough relevant.
>
> The insiders will read the release notes and the details. The press
> release needs to capture new people.

In case this is a useful data point, that was exactly my reasoning as well.

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