Joshua D. Drake wrote: > Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote: >> Joshua D. Drake wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I know that this would be completely out of the norm. However, would it >>> be worth considering having a mid cycle release for 8.3? >>> >>> Basically the release would focus on: >>> >>> Updateable views >>> Bitmap indexes >>> Recursive queries >>> >>> We would release in June? >> >> Interesting idea but we already have one of the fastest release cycles >> of all database systems and some people would like to see a larger cycle. > > I really don't care about other database systems. I care about > postgresql :). That is also why I wanted to limit the features set > specifically.
hmm yeah but as I said - probably not everybody has an immediate demand or is so fixated on those .. > >> In addition to that this plan might hold back some people from upgrading >> to 8.2 which solves quite a few critical issues with features we >> marketed/introduced during the past 8.x cycles and are really getting >> polished and usable now (partitioning,pitr,...) and 8.2 gives quite a >> nice performance boost for a lot of workloads too. >> > > I frankly won't see many people migrate to 8.2. Most of my customers > will wait for 8.3 anyway. (except new business of course). I disagree - 8.2 is much more attractive for us then say 8.0 or 8.1 was and we will probably adopt it rather aggressively ... Stefan ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org