OK, time for me to chime in. I think the outstanding commit-fest items can be broken down into four sections:
o Log streaming o Hot standby o SE-PostgreSQL o Others I think we all agree that log streaming is not ready for 8.4, and that delaying for this feature would lead to an indeterminate delay. I have already talked to the NTT folks, and as painful as it is, I think they have accepted this --- many thanks to them. Hot standby seems to be having a lot of code churn. I am not sure if it is because the patch is being polished for completion or if lots of new problems are being discovered and fixed. Tom and I have both given up trying to track this patch. Fortunately, Heikki has been following it closely, so I think Heikki is going to make the final decision if hot standby is ready for 8.4 (because he is going to have to stand behind it as a committer). SE-PostgreSQL has been in steady development for a year so this is the time to decide about it. My feeling is if we don't accept it now, we are never going to have SE-Linux or row-level security. The next week should show us the right direction when we start discussion on Wednesday, noon GMT. The other patches are 1-2 weeks work and will be dealt with like patches from previous commit-fests. FYI, I think delaying a major release to get feature X always going to be counter-productive because it requires restarting development with no known completion time, and they typical behavior is "just 2 more weeks", "just two more weeks", over and over again, so no one knows how much time they have to develop stuff and things stall badly. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers