The features I'm waiting for.

scott.marlowe wrote:

For me, the only features I'm likely to use in the upcoming releases are
nested transactions. While PITR is a great selling point, and the Windows
Port is something I do look forward to, having to do half my job
programming windows boxes, nested transactions are a feature I can
genuinely use in my daily (maybe weekly??? :-) life.

While a focus on things that make postgresql more market acceptable are
important, the things that make it more feature complete to me as a user
are the things I'd gladly wait an extra month or two for.

But I'm not programming any of the code, so I'm just sayin'...

I'm sure everybody has their own favorite feature. But I can say quite
confidently that the upcoming release contains the most number of highly
anticipated features ever. Nested transaction, 2-phase commit, Windows
port... I mean these are all major stuffs. They are paving the way of
deployments of Postgres in new areas and applications. Plus don't forget
all the other sweet goodies like autovacuum and PITR.

But the next release could also be the buggies version ever, due to the
number of these new features. :-)

--
dave

On Tue, 4 May 2004, David Garamond wrote:

scott.marlowe wrote:

For me, the only features I'm likely to use in the upcoming releases are
nested transactions. While PITR is a great selling point, and the Windows
Port is something I do look forward to, having to do half my job
programming windows boxes, nested transactions are a feature I can
genuinely use in my daily (maybe weekly??? :-) life.

While a focus on things that make postgresql more market acceptable are
important, the things that make it more feature complete to me as a user
are the things I'd gladly wait an extra month or two for.

But I'm not programming any of the code, so I'm just sayin'...

I'm sure everybody has their own favorite feature. But I can say quite
confidently that the upcoming release contains the most number of highly
anticipated features ever. Nested transaction, 2-phase commit, Windows
port... I mean these are all major stuffs. They are paving the way of
deployments of Postgres in new areas and applications. Plus don't forget
all the other sweet goodies like autovacuum and PITR.

But the next release could also be the buggies version ever, due to the
number of these new features. :-)

Agreed. My only real point was that userland features are the reason I
upgrade. Simple stuff like the inclusion of regex in the substring
function in version 7.3 or 7.4 was awesome. It was small and simple, and
made my life MUCH easier.

And while I might not be hacking the code, I'm quite willing to be a beta
tester. :-0

So, thanks to all the hackers, for doing such a great job.

David Garamond wrote:

scott.marlowe wrote:

I'm sure everybody has their own favorite feature. But I can say quite
confidently that the upcoming release contains the most number of highly
anticipated features ever. Nested transaction, 2-phase commit, Windows
port... I mean these are all major stuffs. They are paving the way of
deployments of Postgres in new areas and applications. Plus don't forget
all the other sweet goodies like autovacuum and PITR.

But the next release could also be the buggies version ever, due to the
number of these new features. :-)

If you randomly flipped 20% of the bits in the postgres binary you'd
not find it to be more buggy than the Postgres95/early 6.x series...

Mike Mascari

David Garamond wrote:

scott.marlowe wrote:

For me, the only features I'm likely to use in the upcoming releases are
nested transactions. While PITR is a great selling point, and the Windows
Port is something I do look forward to, having to do half my job
programming windows boxes, nested transactions are a feature I can
genuinely use in my daily (maybe weekly??? :-) life.

While a focus on things that make postgresql more market acceptable are
important, the things that make it more feature complete to me as a user
are the things I'd gladly wait an extra month or two for.

But I'm not programming any of the code, so I'm just sayin'...

I'm sure everybody has their own favorite feature. But I can say quite
confidently that the upcoming release contains the most number of highly
anticipated features ever. Nested transaction, 2-phase commit, Windows
port... I mean these are all major stuffs. They are paving the way of
deployments of Postgres in new areas and applications. Plus don't forget
all the other sweet goodies like autovacuum and PITR.

But the next release could also be the buggies version ever, due to the
number of these new features. :-)

The point is that if we stay to the June 1 feature freeze, you will not
have all those features in 7.5, only a few of them.

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Bruce Momjian wrote:

David Garamond wrote:

scott.marlowe wrote:

For me, the only features I'm likely to use in the upcoming releases are
nested transactions. While PITR is a great selling point, and the Windows
Port is something I do look forward to, having to do half my job
programming windows boxes, nested transactions are a feature I can
genuinely use in my daily (maybe weekly??? :-) life.

While a focus on things that make postgresql more market acceptable are
important, the things that make it more feature complete to me as a user
are the things I'd gladly wait an extra month or two for.

But I'm not programming any of the code, so I'm just sayin'...

I'm sure everybody has their own favorite feature. But I can say quite
confidently that the upcoming release contains the most number of highly
anticipated features ever. Nested transaction, 2-phase commit, Windows
port... I mean these are all major stuffs. They are paving the way of
deployments of Postgres in new areas and applications. Plus don't forget
all the other sweet goodies like autovacuum and PITR.

But the next release could also be the buggies version ever, due to the
number of these new features. :-)

The point is that if we stay to the June 1 feature freeze, you will not
have all those features in 7.5, only a few of them.

Am I wrong or if the 7.5 will have the 2-phase commit we will see pop up
finally robust tools in order to have postgresql in cluster ( mirror,
fault tollerance, load balancer, ... ) ?

I'm looking forward to these tools indeed.

Regards
Gaetano Mendola