Robert Haas wrote: > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 3:47 AM, Dave Page <dp...@pgadmin.org> wrote: > >> I think his reply states that. The long and short is, what Tom was > >> concerned about is true and Heikki has confirmed it. This patch as nice > >> as it would be to have, isn't ready for prime time. It is time to push > >> this patch to 8.5, close up the rest of whatever is left with other > >> patches and move to Beta. > > > > The decision on whether it is ready lies with Heikki, and whilst he is > > prepared to work on it, and there are other patches still in the queue > > being worked on by other committers there is no reason to bump it yet > > (unless Heikki wants to look at the other patches). > > Well, this is a key point. If Heikki thinks that the patch isn't > going to be ready for 8.4 (and it sounds like that's the case), then > it would be more beneficial to the project for him to lay it aside for > a few weeks and help clean out the rest of the patch queue rather than > continuing to work on that patch and leaving the other patches to the > other committers. Our rate of progress on cleaning out the November > CommitFest seems to be asymptotically approaching zero (9 patches > committed in December, 6 in January, 4 so far in February...) so > benching one of the main committers for a feature that won't be ready > anyway is not a good trade-off.
Agreed, we could use Heikki's help in closing the other outstanding patches, and if hot standby isn't going to make 8.4, which I agree with, it would be good for him to put hot standby aside and help on other patches. -- 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
