Re: [HACKERS] Development Plans

2005-03-02 Thread Bernd Helmle
--On Freitag, Februar 25, 2005 12:02:47 -0500 Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I wouldn't mind seeing people be a little more vocal on the hackers list about what they plan to be doing, just so that there's not duplication of effort. Jaime Casanova and me are still working on view update rules

Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [HACKERS] Development Plans

2005-02-27 Thread Neil Conway
Tom Lane wrote: I wouldn't mind seeing people be a little more vocal on the hackers list about what they plan to be doing, just so that there's not duplication of effort. Stuff I have done in some form that I need to finish up and submit: - GiST improvements: sane memory management, 10% scan perf.

Re: [HACKERS] Development Plans

2005-02-25 Thread Jeff Hoffmann
On Feb 25, 2005, at 10:36 AM, Tom Lane wrote: "Matthew T. O'Connor" writes: Are there any big projects are people working on to get into 8.1? I'm privately hoping to get bitmap index operations into 8.1 (that is, build a bitmap of tuple locations from an index, possibly AND or OR the results of mu

Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [HACKERS] Development Plans

2005-02-25 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce used to try to describe our releases as being oriented towards some > particular goal, but I always thought that these were after-the-fact > descriptions that had nothing to do with the real development process. > The truth is that individual developers work on what they fee

Re: [HACKERS] Development Plans

2005-02-25 Thread Bruce Momjian
Jim C. Nasby wrote: > On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 10:49:59AM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > I have no idea how to predict what will be in 8.1. I couldn't predict > > what would be in 8.0 until just before feature freeze, so the idea that > > we would have any clue about 8.1 is unrealistic. > > > > H

Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [HACKERS] Development Plans

2005-02-25 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
I wouldn't mind seeing people be a little more vocal on the hackers list about what they plan to be doing, just so that there's not duplication of effort. But trying to assemble that into some sort of published Master Plan sounds to me like just a recipe for making ourselves look foolish when the

Re: [HACKERS] Development Plans

2005-02-25 Thread Tom Lane
Simon Riggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm happy with the Zen approach of "there is no answer, the code comes > when it is time" and "HACKERS list IS the process". > Many people take the lack of a planned release date as clear indication > that there is no strictly controlled release process, h

Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [HACKERS] Development Plans

2005-02-25 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Am Freitag, 25. Februar 2005 16:49 schrieb Bruce Momjian: > I have no idea how to predict what will be in 8.1. I couldn't predict > what would be in 8.0 until just before feature freeze, so the idea that > we would have any clue about 8.1 is unrealistic. A good guess for the features contained in

Re: [HACKERS] Development Plans

2005-02-25 Thread Tom Lane
"Matthew T. O'Connor" writes: > Are there any big projects are people > working on to get into 8.1? I'm privately hoping to get bitmap index operations into 8.1 (that is, build a bitmap of tuple locations from an index, possibly AND or OR the results of multiple indexes, and finally visit the he

Re: [HACKERS] Development Plans

2005-02-25 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 10:49:59AM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote: > I have no idea how to predict what will be in 8.1. I couldn't predict > what would be in 8.0 until just before feature freeze, so the idea that > we would have any clue about 8.1 is unrealistic. > > How do other open source projects

Re: [HACKERS] Development Plans

2005-02-25 Thread Matthew T. O'Connor
Bruce Momjian wrote: I have no idea how to predict what will be in 8.1. I couldn't predict what would be in 8.0 until just before feature freeze, so the idea that we would have any clue about 8.1 is unrealistic. I agree there is no way to accurately predict such things, however there was a lon

Re: [HACKERS] Development Plans

2005-02-25 Thread Bruce Momjian
Simon Riggs wrote: > I'm giving a talk next week on PostgreSQL 8, so I would like some input > from the community on a few issues, so that my answers are as close to > majority opinion as possible. > > One of the most frequent set of questions I get asked is around the > development vision and rel

[HACKERS] Development Plans

2005-02-25 Thread Simon Riggs
I'm giving a talk next week on PostgreSQL 8, so I would like some input from the community on a few issues, so that my answers are as close to majority opinion as possible. One of the most frequent set of questions I get asked is around the development vision and release strategy of PostgreSQL. -