Re: [HACKERS] The features I'm waiting for.
Bruce Momjian wrote: David Garamond wrote: scott.marlowe wrote: For me, the only features I'm likely to use in the upcoming releases are nested transactions. While PITR is a great selling point, and the Windows Port is something I do look forward to, having to do half my job programming windows boxes, nested transactions are a feature I can genuinely use in my daily (maybe weekly??? :-) life. While a focus on things that make postgresql more market acceptable are important, the things that make it more feature complete to me as a user are the things I'd gladly wait an extra month or two for. But I'm not programming any of the code, so I'm just sayin'... I'm sure everybody has their own favorite feature. But I can say quite confidently that the upcoming release contains the most number of highly anticipated features ever. Nested transaction, 2-phase commit, Windows port... I mean these are all major stuffs. They are paving the way of deployments of Postgres in new areas and applications. Plus don't forget all the other sweet goodies like autovacuum and PITR. But the next release could also be the buggies version ever, due to the number of these new features. :-) The point is that if we stay to the June 1 feature freeze, you will not have all those features in 7.5, only a few of them. Am I wrong or if the 7.5 will have the 2-phase commit we will see pop up finally robust tools in order to have postgresql in cluster ( mirror, fault tollerance, load balancer, ... ) ? I'm looking forward to these tools indeed. Regards Gaetano Mendola ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [HACKERS] The features I'm waiting for.
David Garamond wrote: scott.marlowe wrote: I'm sure everybody has their own favorite feature. But I can say quite confidently that the upcoming release contains the most number of highly anticipated features ever. Nested transaction, 2-phase commit, Windows port... I mean these are all major stuffs. They are paving the way of deployments of Postgres in new areas and applications. Plus don't forget all the other sweet goodies like autovacuum and PITR. But the next release could also be the buggies version ever, due to the number of these new features. :-) If you randomly flipped 20% of the bits in the postgres binary you'd not find it to be more buggy than the Postgres95/early 6.x series... Mike Mascari ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html
Re: [HACKERS] The features I'm waiting for.
David Garamond wrote: > scott.marlowe wrote: > > For me, the only features I'm likely to use in the upcoming releases are > > nested transactions. While PITR is a great selling point, and the Windows > > Port is something I do look forward to, having to do half my job > > programming windows boxes, nested transactions are a feature I can > > genuinely use in my daily (maybe weekly??? :-) life. > > > > While a focus on things that make postgresql more market acceptable are > > important, the things that make it more feature complete to me as a user > > are the things I'd gladly wait an extra month or two for. > > > > But I'm not programming any of the code, so I'm just sayin'... > > I'm sure everybody has their own favorite feature. But I can say quite > confidently that the upcoming release contains the most number of highly > anticipated features ever. Nested transaction, 2-phase commit, Windows > port... I mean these are all major stuffs. They are paving the way of > deployments of Postgres in new areas and applications. Plus don't forget > all the other sweet goodies like autovacuum and PITR. > > But the next release could also be the buggies version ever, due to the > number of these new features. :-) The point is that if we stay to the June 1 feature freeze, you will not have all those features in 7.5, only a few of them. -- Bruce Momjian| http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (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 8: explain analyze is your friend
Re: [HACKERS] The features I'm waiting for.
On Tue, 4 May 2004, David Garamond wrote: > scott.marlowe wrote: > > For me, the only features I'm likely to use in the upcoming releases are > > nested transactions. While PITR is a great selling point, and the Windows > > Port is something I do look forward to, having to do half my job > > programming windows boxes, nested transactions are a feature I can > > genuinely use in my daily (maybe weekly??? :-) life. > > > > While a focus on things that make postgresql more market acceptable are > > important, the things that make it more feature complete to me as a user > > are the things I'd gladly wait an extra month or two for. > > > > But I'm not programming any of the code, so I'm just sayin'... > > I'm sure everybody has their own favorite feature. But I can say quite > confidently that the upcoming release contains the most number of highly > anticipated features ever. Nested transaction, 2-phase commit, Windows > port... I mean these are all major stuffs. They are paving the way of > deployments of Postgres in new areas and applications. Plus don't forget > all the other sweet goodies like autovacuum and PITR. > > But the next release could also be the buggies version ever, due to the > number of these new features. :-) Agreed. My only real point was that userland features are the reason I upgrade. Simple stuff like the inclusion of regex in the substring function in version 7.3 or 7.4 was awesome. It was small and simple, and made my life MUCH easier. And while I might not be hacking the code, I'm quite willing to be a beta tester. :-0 So, thanks to all the hackers, for doing such a great job. ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend
Re: [HACKERS] The features I'm waiting for.
scott.marlowe wrote: For me, the only features I'm likely to use in the upcoming releases are nested transactions. While PITR is a great selling point, and the Windows Port is something I do look forward to, having to do half my job programming windows boxes, nested transactions are a feature I can genuinely use in my daily (maybe weekly??? :-) life. While a focus on things that make postgresql more market acceptable are important, the things that make it more feature complete to me as a user are the things I'd gladly wait an extra month or two for. But I'm not programming any of the code, so I'm just sayin'... I'm sure everybody has their own favorite feature. But I can say quite confidently that the upcoming release contains the most number of highly anticipated features ever. Nested transaction, 2-phase commit, Windows port... I mean these are all major stuffs. They are paving the way of deployments of Postgres in new areas and applications. Plus don't forget all the other sweet goodies like autovacuum and PITR. But the next release could also be the buggies version ever, due to the number of these new features. :-) -- dave ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
[HACKERS] The features I'm waiting for.
For me, the only features I'm likely to use in the upcoming releases are nested transactions. While PITR is a great selling point, and the Windows Port is something I do look forward to, having to do half my job programming windows boxes, nested transactions are a feature I can genuinely use in my daily (maybe weekly??? :-) life. While a focus on things that make postgresql more market acceptable are important, the things that make it more feature complete to me as a user are the things I'd gladly wait an extra month or two for. But I'm not programming any of the code, so I'm just sayin'... ---(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
