On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 2:17 AM, Simon Riggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree such improvements would be welcomed. I'm pretty sure they sat > around saying we can already do that some other way at first, until the > requests started to pile up.
Agreed. > >> > Stuff that they see fit to add is not necessarily going to be on our radar >> > screen in the foreseeable future. > > I'm not clear on why there should be an inherent delay. I think > PostgreSQL adoption is mostly held back by operational features, like > performance management, locking, backup. I agree. From what I've seen, the lack of good incremental backup is still a major problem regarding adoption of large-scale systems. Similarly, upgrade-in-place makes using PG fairly prohibitive in several cases, though I'm glad Zdenek et al. are working on that. I still hear lots of questions regarding, "how do I tell what PG is doing right now?", which is why we (EnterpriseDB) developed RITA (the Runtime Instrumentation and Tracing Architecture). DTrace is great, but it's not cross-platform, can't be queried from within the database, and until now, didn't really give you enough information to diagnose many user-related problems. > But we're mainly constrained on people's time, i.e. money. And AFAICS > nothing like this is going to happen in this release. Agreed. -- Jonah H. Harris, Sr. Software Architect | phone: 732.331.1324 EnterpriseDB Corporation | fax: 732.331.1301 499 Thornall Street, 2nd Floor | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Edison, NJ 08837 | http://www.enterprisedb.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-sql mailing list (pgsql-sql@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-sql
