Robert Haas wrote: > On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Bruce Momjian<br...@momjian.us> wrote: > > Robert Haas wrote: > >> As I've said before, I am presently of the opinion that Streaming > >> Replication has little chance of making it into 8.5. ?This opinion is > >> vulnerable to contrary evidence, like a new version of the patch > >> showing up that shows massive progress. ?But the patch was bounced > >> from CF 2009-07 for a whole series of architectural problems which > >> have to be addressed before we can even get to implementation details, > >> bugs, documentation, etc. ?Hot Standby is in better shape but amount > >> of code cleanup needed is substantial and there is also quite a bit of > >> 'git diff master | grep XXX' that needs to be gone through. > > > > I agree. ?I think it is unlikely we will have anything ready to commit > > for Streaming Replication or Hot Standby for the next commit-fest in > > mid-September, and if we go for a 3-CF (commit fest) release, that gives > > us only one final CF to get those features accepted, again unlikely. ?We > > are either going to need to go to a 4-CF release, change the way we are > > developing these patches, or both to get either in 8.5. > > I don't think a 4-CF release is going to help. It's just going to be > 2 more months before everything else that has been done gets released. > Call me a pessimist if you will, but zero times an arbitrary number > of CommitFests is still zero. > > The only solution here is to get more people working on these patches. > I have volunteered to work on HS and would also be willing to work on > SR. Work can be reviewing or actual code. But I cannot work on a > patch I cannot see, and neither can anyone else.
Agreed, so we fall back to "change the way we are developing these patches". I am hesistant to jump into managing these patches until they get their shot by their original authors in the September CF, but managing them starting in mid-October will probably be too late for them to get into 8.5. -- 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