Gavin Sherry wrote: > On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > Gavin Sherry wrote: > > > On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > My outlook is that it isn't a lot of _new_ things that you couldn't do > > > > before, but rather improvements of existing functionality. > > > > > > It seems as though the majority of things on Tom's list are new things you > > > couldn't do (at all easily) before. > > > > 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? > > Well, GIN and some of the unreviewed stuff (bitmaps, plpgsql debugger, > updateable views) are in the same league as the stuff in 8.0 in terms of > user demand and catching up with competitors, I think. > > A lot of the things on Tom's list are new bits of functionality to things > added around 8.0 and 8.1 (major enhancements to the usability of > constraint exclusion, for example). We knew then that these needed > additional functionality to fill them out and make them useful to a wide > range of people. Ideally we'd have both at each release but reality > doesn't work like that.
Yes, that is my point. It is a "usability" release. Nothing wrong with that. In fact, some people asked me if we were still doing things for ordinary users rather than just doing enterprise functionality. -- Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: 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
