Re: Recovery Test Framework

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> "Dave Page" <dpage@pgadmin.org> writes:
> Yeah, but there are already a number of things in 8.4 that are killer
> features for various applications --- window functions and WITH to take
> two recently-committed examples.  Should we sit on those for however
> long it will take to make replication release-worthy?

When chatting with 'real' users (as opposed to us lot) at LinuxLive
late last year, sync rep and hot standby were the features they all
seemed to want. The others are excellent additions as well of course,
but most people didn't seem as interested.

> In general, we have always regretted it in the past when we chose to
> slip a release waiting for a specific feature...

I don't recall such a time - though perhaps the last time it happened
was before I was so heavily involved in the release process (ie. 7.x).
What were the reasons for regretting it?

-- 
Dave Page
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