Re: 8.2 planning features

On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Tom Lane wrote:

> satoshi nagayasu <nagayasus@nttdata.co.jp> writes:
>> Oleg Bartunov wrote:
>>> I and Teodor are going to give a talk on conference "Corporate database
>>> systems-2006" here in Moscow and we need info about new features planned
>>> in 8.2 release. Bruce, do you have a list of them ?
>
>> Refer to the Josh's past talk, "PostgreSQL Directions 8.1 and beyond".
>> MP3 and materials of are available:
>
>> http://www.postgresql.jp/misc/seminar/2006-02-17_18/materials/01_Josh_Berkus.pdf
>> http://www.postgresql.jp/misc/seminar/2006-02-17_18/materials/01_Josh_Berkus.mp3
>
> BTW, pretty pictures such as Josh draws in the above talk should not be
> confused with reality ;-).  The reality of this project is that *there
> is no overall plan*.  Individual developers work on what they choose to.
> It's true that at the moment there seem to be quite a number of people
> focusing on performance in enterprise-size applications, but that's not
> because there's any central plan saying that that's what we're doing.
>
> In particular, asking for a list of features that will be done in
> particular future releases shows a complete lack of understanding
> of the process ...

I didn't expect such a reaction :) I expected people (developers) know what 
they choose (or plan) to work on and just share their thoughts. If there would
be any overall plan I'd not asked -hackers at all. I know, for example, that
we're going to work on inverted index support, which scales full text support.

>
>             regards, tom lane
>
    Regards,        Oleg
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