Rod Taylor wrote:
On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 19:13 -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
Bruce, on May 17, 2004, you wrote:
So, yea, I am frustrated. I know these features are hard and complex,
but I want them for PostgreSQL, and I want them as soon as possible. I
guess what really bugs me is that we are so close to having these few
remaining big features, and because they are so complex, they are taking
a lot longer to arrive than previous features, and sometimes see a year
pass without progress on some items, and that bugs me.
This discussion was taking place as we closed the 7.5 development cycle,
and we weren't getting PITR, tablespaces, nested transactions, 2PC, the
Win32 port, in the release. We have all those things now.
We have gone a long way now, even though it was only a year ago. My
question for everyone on this list is: What are the "few remaining big
features" that you see missing for PostgreSQL?
Or, slightly different, what are people's most wanted features?
I have an immediate use for:
* Identity/generator support (per standard)
* Merge (update/insert as required)
* Multi-CPU sorts. Take a large single sort like an index creation
and split the work among multiple CPUs.
I am just a novice end user, but I would like to see:
SavePoints be able to use within functions. ( I think this involves
making procedures that execute outside of a transaction)
Cross Database references. (Available through dblink, but it would
be better if it was supported natively)
The ability to say create function foo () returns setof record(int,
int , int). I believe this is coming in the next release though.
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