As a user, I would definetly prefer to see 8.1 released sooner with the feature set listed below, than wait another 6+ months for a few other features. Additionally, the beta may go smoother/faster if you don't have too many huge features going in at once.
Just my opinion. Later Rob --- Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> wrote: > You might remember that when we released 8.0, the > plan was to have a > 12-month development cycle for 8.1, unless there > were Win32 problems > that required complex fixes, in which case we would > have a shorter 8.1 > cycle. > > Well the good news is that there have been almost no > Win32 problems, but > the other good news is that we are getting a lot of > powerful features > for 8.1 already: > > o two-phase (Heikki Linnakangas, almost done) > o multiple out function paramters (Tom, done) > o bitmappted indexes (Tom, almost done) > o shared row locks (Alvaro, almost done) > o integrated auto-vacuum (Bruce) > o buffer cache fixes for SMP (Tom, done) > > It is possible all these items will be done by > sometime in June. Now, > if that happens, do we want to continue with the > 12-month plan or > shorten the 8.1 release cycle, perhaps targeting a > release in the > September/October timeframe? > > The current core proposal is to do feature freeze on > July 1, with the > understanding that we will be done most of the items > above by then and > have the outstanding patches applied. > > -- > Bruce Momjian | > http://candle.pha.pa.us > pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) > 359-1001 > + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts > Road > + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown > Square, Pennsylvania 19073 > > ---------------------------(end of > broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose > an index scan if your > joining column's datatypes do not match > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly