Re: [HACKERS] RI status report #2

On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Jan Wieck wrote:

> >
> > > Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Man, that's a heap of additions.
> > >
> > >     Only the top of the iceberg :-)
> >
> > Yikes.  I was just talking to Thomas Lockhart by phone, and was saying
> > that I thought 6.6 would be a small, incremental release after the
> > changes in 6.5.*.  Obviously, 6.6 is going to be as full-featured as
> > earlier releases.
> 
>     Wasn't  it  YOU  who  asked  ME to become active again?  Your
>     above thought is a  little  silly  if  ya  really  wanted  to
>     interrupt my sleep mode ;-)
> 
>     OTOH   Vadim   is   close  to  WAL  and  I  see  activity  on
>     (outer/left/right?) join support too. Maybe there wouldn't be
>     a v6.6 at all.
> 
>     WAL is IMHO the only real reason not to choose PostgreSQL for
>     production.  Beeing able to recover  (roll  forward)  from  a
>     backup  using  transaction  log  is  a  required  feature for
>     mission critical data. Thus, having all  this  (WAL,  FOREIGN
>     KEY  etc.)  is  a greater step forward that that between v6.4
>     and v6.5.
> 
>     If all that really materializes in  our  next  release,  it's
>     time to number it v7.0 - no?

I was kinda starting to wonder that one myself... my feeling: its time
guys.

We're still in no more rush to get it out the door...sometime 1st quarter
of year 2000, but with everything that has changed up until now, I think
its time we up'd the major version number ...


Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org 
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org