Rick Gigger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So if you define "major features" as class A features. In this case > major doesn't mean important or useful or difficult to implement, > just that they are the sort of features that one might be told to > look for when shopping for a database. So in terms of marketing > PITR, two phase commit, WIN32 support were very much "major" features.
You have a point: 8.0 and 8.1 had much more buzzword-compliant stuff added. The truth of the matter is that a lot of that stuff was pretty rough-edged in actual use, and now we're starting to smooth it out and make it more readily usable. So in terms of *usable* PITR etc we're only now getting there with 8.2. But that's not a bullet point that impresses PHBs. > That being said I think that two of the not-yet-reviewed features are > just as "major" as the "major" features from the past two releases. > 1) updatable views - I won't really use this but it just seems like > one of those features that people use when doing rdbms features > comparison charts. Agreed, if this gets in it will be a Real Biggie. I de-emphasized it in my list because I haven't looked at the patch yet and so have no idea whether it's any good, but I fully agree it's a PHB-worthy bullet point if it works. > 2) restartable recovery (allow checkpoints for a hot-standby server) > - Having the ability to have a hot standby database is a HUGE feature > in my book. Again, we claimed to have hot standby in 8.1, and we sort of did, it just didn't work all that nicely. This will file down one seriously rough edge, but is that a good marketing bullet point? Probably not. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org