Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom said that our low-hanging fruit is gone and only hard items are > left. This is certainly true. What is hard to accept is that those big > items take _weeks_ of focused development, and we just don't have enough > full-time developers who can spend that amount of time to do them. The > sad truth is that there is alway something _else_ to do, rather than > block out weeks to code a complex feature. And these are usually > features that can't be done incrementally, but require a huge input of > time before there is any payback.
I spent weeks doing hash aggregates, weeks doing IN-subselect optimization, and am in the middle of many weeks on FE/BE protocol improvement. I am sorry that you don't see these as killer features ... but they are all things that we desperately needed to do. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(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