7.4 feature freeze is here

Started by Tom Laneover 22 years ago6 messages
#1Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us

The Postgres core committee would like to announce that we are now in
feature-freeze mode for the 7.4 release.

All patches already received in pgsql-patches will be considered in the
usual fashion (and yes, we'll allow some slack for fixing problems in
them). New features arriving in the future will be held for 7.5.

Feel free to keep sending patches that fix bugs or improve
documentation; only new features are out.

The plan is to spend the next two weeks cleaning things up (bug fixes,
documentation, etc) with a formal beta release scheduled on or about
July 15.

Final release of 7.4 will be whenever it seems ready, as usual.

regards, tom lane

#2Robert Treat
xzilla@users.sourceforge.net
In reply to: Tom Lane (#1)
Re: 7.4 feature freeze is here

Once you folks are done going through the remaining list of patches, can
we get someone to send a rough list of new features in 7.4 sent over to
-advocacy? Please feel free to highlight any items that you think
warrant special notice from a technical standpoint. Thanks in advance,

Robert Treat

On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 17:26, Tom Lane wrote:

The Postgres core committee would like to announce that we are now in
feature-freeze mode for the 7.4 release.

All patches already received in pgsql-patches will be considered in the
usual fashion (and yes, we'll allow some slack for fixing problems in
them). New features arriving in the future will be held for 7.5.

Feel free to keep sending patches that fix bugs or improve
documentation; only new features are out.

The plan is to spend the next two weeks cleaning things up (bug fixes,
documentation, etc) with a formal beta release scheduled on or about
July 15.

Final release of 7.4 will be whenever it seems ready, as usual.

regards, tom lane

--
Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL

#3Bruno Wolff III
bruno@wolff.to
In reply to: Robert Treat (#2)
Re: 7.4 feature freeze is here

On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 10:18:23 +0800,
Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> wrote:

It might be killer than that PHP support for Apache2 requires that all PHP
modules be thread-safe...

Is that true if you are using the prefork MPM?

#4Christopher Kings-Lynne
chriskl@familyhealth.com.au
In reply to: Bruno Wolff III (#3)
Re: 7.4 feature freeze is here

On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 10:18:23 +0800,
Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> wrote:

It might be killer than that PHP support for Apache2 requires that all

PHP

modules be thread-safe...

Is that true if you are using the prefork MPM?

Dunno.

Chris

#5Josh Berkus
josh@agliodbs.com
In reply to: Christopher Kings-Lynne (#4)
Re: 7.4 feature freeze is here

Folks,

You might like to mention that (as far as I can tell) ECPG is now safe
for pthreads on Linux and FreeBSD. The recursive mutex locks are removed,
so

even

platforms that implement the earlier version of pthreads ought to work as
well, once configure supports them (anyone care to actually test this
assertion?)

I don't quite understand this. This doesn't mean that *postgresql* is
threaded, does it?

--
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

#6Philip Yarra
philip@utiba.com
In reply to: Josh Berkus (#5)
Re: 7.4 feature freeze is here

On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 04:03 pm, Josh Berkus wrote:

I don't quite understand this. This doesn't mean that *postgresql* is
threaded, does it?

I was just referring to the client interfaces ECPG and libpq. AFAIK the
back-end is not threaded (and I'm beginning to understand why not).

So my app starts multiple threads of execution through the ECPG libs... the
ECPG libs (and libpq) start multiple sockets to the back-end - one for each
thread. No changes to the back-end.

That's my understanding - Lee did most of the work, so maybe he can confirm
that.

Regards, Philip Yarra.