Ühel kenal päeval, R, 2006-08-04 kell 00:46, kirjutas Bruce Momjian: > Tom Lane wrote: > > Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > To me new things are like PITR, Win32, savepoints, two-phase commit, > > > partitioned tables, tablespaces. These are from 8.0 and 8.1. What is > > > there in 8.2 like that? > > > > [ shrug... ] Five out of your six items have no basis in the SQL spec. > > So it's not clear to me what your definition of "major feature" is, > > unless maybe it's "anything except what we did for 8.2". Can you > > enumerate ten things you would consider comparable to the above features > > that aren't done yet? > > No, I cannot. I do think our missing list is shrinking. My point is > that you really couldn't easily work around the 8.0/8.1 items I listed > if they were missing, while the 8.2 items could be more easily > worked-around.
The workaround for missing concurrent vacuum was to design your databases so the your small and large OLTP tables are on different servers or that you keep a replica and vacuum your large tables there and then switch over to it. It is debatable if that qualifies as "more easily worked-around" The workaround for pl/python not allowing returning records and sets was to write an actual pl/python function to generate the data and to store it in global ditionary GD, a set of pl/python data retrieval functions for each postgresql data type used and a wrapper function in pl/pgsql to call the real function and then return the the data records using the data retrieval functions. May be simple, but a real PITA to do for more than one function. I guess some other new features that were missing before were as easy to work around :) > Again, nothing wrong with that. Sure. Actually I think that people were able to work around missing features in 8.0/8.1 as well. The proof being, that people *did* actually use postgresql before 8.x , some even on win32 ;) -- ---------------- Hannu Krosing Database Architect Skype Technologies OÜ Akadeemia tee 21 F, Tallinn, 12618, Estonia Skype me: callto:hkrosing Get Skype for free: http://www.skype.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq
