Re: Two-phase commit for 8.1

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Tom Lane wrote:

> "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org> writes:
>> If the patch is ready to be committed early in the cycle, I'd say most
>> definitely ... just depends on how late in the cycle its ready ...
>
> My recollection is that it's quite far from being complete.  I had hoped
> to spend some time during the 8.1 cycle helping Heikki finish it up,
> but if we stick to the 2-month-dev-cycle idea I'm afraid there's no way
> it'll be done in time.  I thought that "some time" would probably amount
> to a solid man-month or so, and there's no way I can spend half my time
> on just one feature for this cycle.
>
> If Heikki wants this in for 8.1, the right thing to do is vote against
> the short-dev-cycle idea.  But we need a plausible answer about what to
> do about ARC to make that credible...

I'm not sure what I want.

If the 8.1 cycle really is a short one, say 3 months, then I have no 
problem waiting for 8.2. But we have a very bad track record regarding 
short-dev-cycles. I honestly don't believe we can get 8.1 released before 
July.

- Heikki