Tom Lane wrote: > 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. >
Yes, I know they are _very_ needed, but they don't increase functionality the way Win32 or PITR would do. Please don't feel I am minimizing these features. If I had to choose, I would choose those features over Win32 or PITR. It is just that I wanted all 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 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
