Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-09 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Joshua D. Drake wrote: Or better yet, if editing the TODO is more accessible then we're not dependent on one person to maintain it. To be fair, Bruce has offered to allow that to happen even on his home machine (Bruce that is a bad idea btw) and ANYONE can submit a patch. It may not be a

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-09 Thread Bruce Momjian
Jim C. Nasby wrote: On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 08:21:41AM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote: From Bruce's perspective this actually doesn't add too much to the workload. Generate the link, possibly paste some archive urls into the wiki and then someone can come behind and clean up. Or better

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-09 Thread Bruce Momjian
Joshua D. Drake wrote: We now have URLs on the TODO list to the archives, and the next FAQ item is: H3 id=item1.41.4) What do I do after choosing an item to work on?/H3 PSend an email to pgsql-hackers with a proposal for what you want to do (assuming your

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-09 Thread Bruce Momjian
Joshua D. Drake wrote: Jim C. Nasby wrote: On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 08:21:41AM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote: From Bruce's perspective this actually doesn't add too much to the workload. Generate the link, possibly paste some archive urls into the wiki and then someone can come behind and

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-09 Thread Bruce Momjian
Jim C. Nasby wrote: On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 10:31:00PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: bruce wrote: bruce wrote: OK, seems this should be a separate application, not done in the TODO list, and I am not willing to take on that additional workload. Let me add that anyone who

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-09 Thread Joshua D. Drake
It would also be useful to have possible dependencies. I recently saw a patch come across from Sun, that Tom commented on, something about increase the size of some value to 64bit. I don't recall exactly. I am keeping URLs in the TODO list. Why don't people submit improvements to the TODO

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-09 Thread Bruce Momjian
Andrew Dunstan wrote: Bruce Momjian wrote: I am keeping URLs in the TODO list. Why don't people submit improvements to the TODO list, rather than adding more complexity by making a separate wiki for every TODO item? If no one updates the TODO item, what makes you think they are

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-09 Thread Bruce Momjian
Andrew Dunstan wrote: Joshua D. Drake wrote: Or better yet, if editing the TODO is more accessible then we're not dependent on one person to maintain it. To be fair, Bruce has offered to allow that to happen even on his home machine (Bruce that is a bad idea btw) and ANYONE can

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-09 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Until you have used this, it seems strange. After you start it doesn't ;-) Sure, but with openness comes cruft, which can be a problem too. Do we want everyone's idea of a useful feature listed? I don't. Why not as long as we have someone who can actually make approved todos versus

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-09 Thread Bruce Momjian
Joshua D. Drake wrote: Hi, I am a C developer, PostgreSQL Rocks... I would like to take the Enums todo. Here are my specific questions regarding your feature requirements at URL --- Well, few have shown any interest in improving the TODO list, so who is going to be motivated to do

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-09 Thread Bruce Momjian
Joshua D. Drake wrote: Until you have used this, it seems strange. After you start it doesn't ;-) Sure, but with openness comes cruft, which can be a problem too. Do we want everyone's idea of a useful feature listed? I don't. Why not as long as we have someone who can actually

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-09 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Bruce Momjian wrote: Joshua D. Drake wrote: Until you have used this, it seems strange. After you start it doesn't ;-) Sure, but with openness comes cruft, which can be a problem too. Do we want everyone's idea of a useful feature listed? I don't. Why not as long as we have someone who can

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-09 Thread Bruce Momjian
Joshua D. Drake wrote: Bruce Momjian wrote: Joshua D. Drake wrote: Until you have used this, it seems strange. After you start it doesn't ;-) Sure, but with openness comes cruft, which can be a problem too. Do we want everyone's idea of a useful feature listed? I don't. Why not as

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-09 Thread Joshua D. Drake
1. Better descriptions about the todo/feature? E.g; feature specification I am not sure there is enough churn of TODO items to make larger descriptions worth it. As it is, I have to link to new URLs as the TODO item is clarified. Are you kidding? Did you see the discussion just on the todo

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-09 Thread Bruce Momjian
Joshua D. Drake wrote: 1. Better descriptions about the todo/feature? E.g; feature specification I am not sure there is enough churn of TODO items to make larger descriptions worth it. As it is, I have to link to new URLs as the TODO item is clarified. Are you kidding? Did you see

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-09 Thread Bruce Momjian
Heikki Linnakangas wrote: Bruce Momjian wrote: I am keeping URLs in the TODO list. Why don't people submit improvements to the TODO list, rather than adding more complexity by making a separate wiki for every TODO item? If no one updates the TODO item, what makes you think they are

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-09 Thread Joshua D. Drake
3. Heck *your portion* of the TODO would be easily satisfied by having a single line with a link that points to the specific wiki page. But who is going to do that if no one has done anything in the past for the TODO list. I keep asking that. I believe that Andrew and I as well as a few

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-09 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
Bruce Momjian wrote: I am keeping URLs in the TODO list. Why don't people submit improvements to the TODO list, rather than adding more complexity by making a separate wiki for every TODO item? If no one updates the TODO item, what makes you think they are going to do somethin in a wiki?

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-09 Thread Joshua D. Drake
OK, so what do you want to do? Oh, sure makes us deliver on our arguments. How very un open source of you :).. Let me get with andrew and I will post back and actual solidified idea. Andrew and I are tabling this until I get back from LinuxWorld. We will be discussing potential ideas to

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-09 Thread Tom Lane
Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It would also be useful to have possible dependencies. I recently saw a patch come across from Sun, that Tom commented on, something about increase the size of some value to 64bit. I don't recall exactly. Tom's comments although valid (as usual :))

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-09 Thread Andrew Hammond
I am actually hoping that jabber.postgresql.org would help that in the long run. Jabber's ok, but why not go with SILC instead? ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-09 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Tom Lane wrote: Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It would also be useful to have possible dependencies. I recently saw a patch come across from Sun, that Tom commented on, something about increase the size of some value to 64bit. I don't recall exactly. Tom's comments although valid

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-09 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Andrew Hammond wrote: I am actually hoping that jabber.postgresql.org would help that in the long run. Jabber's ok, but why not go with SILC instead? Because everything supports jabber, I only know of SILC and gaim that support SILC :). Also Jabber is pretty much an accepted standard at

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-09 Thread Neil Conway
On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 12:15 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: Well, either people post the changes publically or I trust a few people. I don't trust everyone or the TODO becomes a dumping ground, which I am afraid might happen with a wiki that anyone can update. I think that's preventable,

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-09 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 01:56:42PM -0700, Neil Conway wrote: On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 12:15 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: Well, either people post the changes publically or I trust a few people. I don't trust everyone or the TODO becomes a dumping ground, which I am afraid might happen with a

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-09 Thread Robert Treat
On Wednesday 09 August 2006 12:12, Bruce Momjian wrote: One possibility: have a 'holding area' (perhaps on a Wiki) where users could add use-cases for these ideas. If there's 'enough demand' (however one defines that), they get promoted to the TODO. Note that this is something geared

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-09 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Robert Treat wrote: On Wednesday 09 August 2006 12:12, Bruce Momjian wrote: One possibility: have a 'holding area' (perhaps on a Wiki) where users could add use-cases for these ideas. If there's 'enough demand' (however one defines that), they get promoted to the TODO. Note that this is

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-09 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Dave Page wrote: Marc was setting up developer.postgresql.org as a developers wiki btw... Dunno what happened to that. Marc? Two words: House Hunting ... I have to download the stuff from pgFoundry tomorrow night, already have the database server running locally ...

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-09 Thread Tom Lane
Mark Kirkwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Robert Treat wrote: Wouldn't a thread reply saying something like Bruce, can we add this as a TODO with the following wording: blah blah blah likely suffice? That's pretty much how it's done now ... Yeah - and/or a patch to TODO or the relevant

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-08 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Bruce Momjian wrote: I know about the same as the community members who pay attention to postings. What I do is to act on that information by contacting developers and asking them to complete their work for feature freeze. Many of my conversations are not appropriate for the public, which is

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-08 Thread Bruce Momjian
Andrew Dunstan wrote: Bruce Momjian wrote: I know about the same as the community members who pay attention to postings. What I do is to act on that information by contacting developers and asking them to complete their work for feature freeze. Many of my conversations are not

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-08 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Bruce Momjian wrote: Or try a new system, and I will keep doing what I do, and we can see which system works best. Excellent idea. We don't have to have a one size fits all set of procedures anyway - in fact I think it might be a mistake. Maybe we should select a few major features

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-08 Thread Bruce Momjian
Andrew Dunstan wrote: My big point is that we should choose a system that would have had a better chance of completing features than what we have used in the past, and no one has suggested one. It is just like the bug tracker issue. Many think we need a bugtracker, but when I ask to

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-08 Thread Lukas Kahwe Smith
Bruce Momjian wrote: I am saying other people can try a new system, but I don't have time to try something different when no evidence has been given that it is better (just different). Ok, not sure if I am in a position to call shots like I am about to, but here it goes: Could everybody who

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-08 Thread Joshua D. Drake
For example: Make postmater and postgres options distinct so the postmaster -o option is no longer needed | PeterE | Confirmed for 8.2 | 07/20/06 We could do that, but once an item is done I don't see the point in having the date and person's name. You are right that is clearly a different

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-08 Thread Bruce Momjian
Joshua D. Drake wrote: For example: Make postmater and postgres options distinct so the postmaster -o option is no longer needed | PeterE | Confirmed for 8.2 | 07/20/06 We could do that, but once an item is done I don't see the point in having the date and person's name. You

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-08 Thread Christopher Browne
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Momjian) wrote: Joshua D. Drake wrote: For example: Make postmater and postgres options distinct so the postmaster -o option is no longer needed | PeterE | Confirmed for 8.2 | 07/20/06 We could do that, but

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-08 Thread Bruce Momjian
Christopher Browne wrote: Make postmater and postgres options distinct so the postmaster -o option is no longer needed | Alvaro | Confirmed | 09/20/06 Notice the sequence of events. I am not saying the specific statuses are the way to go but it would give a simple way to keep tabs on

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-08 Thread Chris Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Momjian) writes: Christopher Browne wrote: Make postmater and postgres options distinct so the postmaster -o option is no longer needed | Alvaro | Confirmed | 09/20/06 Notice the sequence of events. I am not saying the specific statuses are the way to go but

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-08 Thread Joshua D. Drake
If what we see in the todo is... Implement hierarchical queries using ANSI WITH/recursive query system | Someone | Under way | [some date six months ago] ... then those that are interested in seeing this go in can probably guess that the effort has stalled in that nothing has been worth

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-08 Thread Josh Berkus
Bruce, What happens now is that someone says they want to work on X, and the community tells them that Y might be working on it, and Y gives us a status. What happens now is: A starts working on X. 3 months pass B comes to hackers, spends hours reading the archives, doesn't find X (because

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-08 Thread AgentM
On Aug 8, 2006, at 17:47 , Josh Berkus wrote: What happens now is: A starts working on X. 3 months pass B comes to hackers, spends hours reading the archives, doesn't find X (because they know it by a different name), comes to -hackers and asks Is anyone working on X? B waits for 2 weeks

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-08 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Josh Berkus wrote: Bruce, What happens now is that someone says they want to work on X, and the community tells them that Y might be working on it, and Y gives us a status. What happens now is: A starts working on X. 3 months pass B comes to hackers, spends hours reading the archives,

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-08 Thread Bruce Momjian
OK, seems this should be a separate application, not done in the TODO list, and I am not willing to take on that additional workload. --- Josh Berkus wrote: Bruce, What happens now is that someone says they want to

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-08 Thread Josh Berkus
Bruce, OK, seems this should be a separate application, not done in the TODO list, and I am not willing to take on that additional workload. That's my feeling. But I think that we have enough people who are interested to maintain it. If we don't, there was no point anyway. --Josh

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-08 Thread Bruce Momjian
bruce wrote: OK, seems this should be a separate application, not done in the TODO list, and I am not willing to take on that additional workload. Let me add that anyone who has CVS commit access or wants to submit TODO patches can keep the TODO updated in this way.

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-08 Thread Lukas Smith
Josh Berkus wrote: Bruce, OK, seems this should be a separate application, not done in the TODO list, and I am not willing to take on that additional workload. That's my feeling. But I think that we have enough people who are interested to maintain it. If we don't, there was no point

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-08 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Lukas Smith wrote: Josh Berkus wrote: OK, seems this should be a separate application, not done in the TODO list, and I am not willing to take on that additional workload. That's my feeling. But I think that we have enough people who are interested to maintain it. If we don't, there

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-08 Thread Joshua D. Drake
I'd vote for a Trac site. I've found it to be a rather useful tool in general, though a bit too simple-minded; integrated Wiki, a simple bugtracker, and roadmap-style reports for people who cares about such stuff. I don't think we'd use the SCM module though. Oddly enough if anything we

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-08 Thread mdean
Can you guys conceive of the thousands of hours of chat you guys are racking upinstead of real hacking because you have an inadequate working structure? This is by far the chattiest and least worthwhile listserv in the bsd world. Bar none. -- No virus found in this outgoing message.

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-08 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Joshua D. Drake wrote: I don't think we'd use the SCM module though. Oddly enough if anything we could use the SCM module for viewing/changest etc... I already have it regenerating itself over at http://projects.commandprompt.com/public/pgsql I've found that repository view to be broken

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-08 Thread Joshua D. Drake
Alvaro Herrera wrote: Joshua D. Drake wrote: I don't think we'd use the SCM module though. Oddly enough if anything we could use the SCM module for viewing/changest etc... I already have it regenerating itself over at http://projects.commandprompt.com/public/pgsql I've found that

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-08 Thread Bruce Momjian
bruce wrote: bruce wrote: OK, seems this should be a separate application, not done in the TODO list, and I am not willing to take on that additional workload. Let me add that anyone who has CVS commit access or wants to submit TODO patches can keep the TODO updated in this way. I can

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-07 Thread Joshua D. Drake
I'm constantly amazed at the way people get worked up about X-is-not-there *after* feature freeze. If you wanted it in 8.2, the time to be throwing resources at the problem was six months ago. It's not like Oleg and Teodor haven't let it be known that they could use financing. I would say

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-07 Thread Dave Page
-Original Message- From: Tom Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Greg Sabino Mullane [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Sent: 07/08/06 04:42 Subject: Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status I'm constantly amazed at the way people get worked up about X

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-07 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 11:57:03AM -0500, Kenneth Marshall wrote: On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 12:40:36PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: Guillaume Smet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And what about compression of on-disk sorting? That's purely a performance issue, which some people seem to want to

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-07 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 11:31:24AM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: Bruce Momjian wrote: The fact is, the existing system worked as it should, though it is often invisible. We didn't get all the features we wanted, but that isn't because the system isn't working. Thank you Bruce. That is good

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-07 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 09:58:08PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Greg, you are on an utterly wrong track here. Try to look about a bit more broadly. FWIW, I tend to agree with Greg. This project has gotten to where it is with a very loose structure, and I think that

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-07 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 10:30:26PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: Joshua D. Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As I was saying on #postgresql, the current system works well for a small group of developers. I don't think there is any arguing that. However, there is a larger group out there, that

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-07 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 03:55:17PM -0700, Ron Mayer wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ron Mayer wrote: We have not had that many cases where lack of communication was a problem. One could say too much communication was the problem this time. I get the impression people implied they'd do

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-07 Thread Lukas Smith
Jim C. Nasby wrote: Going one step further, if that item was in a system that allowed people to get emails any time status changed then *everyone* who was interested in that feature would immediately know that help was needed. I fail to see how that's a bad thing. Or maybe even more

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-07 Thread Josh Berkus
Bruce, The fact is, the existing system worked as it should, though it is often invisible. We didn't get all the features we wanted, but that isn't because the system isn't working. But it's exactly the invisibility of the process which people are complaining about. If the postgresql

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-07 Thread Bruce Momjian
Josh Berkus wrote: Bruce, The fact is, the existing system worked as it should, though it is often invisible. We didn't get all the features we wanted, but that isn't because the system isn't working. But it's exactly the invisibility of the process which people are complaining

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-07 Thread Bruce Momjian
Joshua D. Drake wrote: The fact is, the existing system worked as it should, though it is often invisible. We didn't get all the features we wanted, but that isn't because the system isn't working. Well that kind of comes back to my point of better communication. Perhaps a lot of

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-06 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sat, 5 Aug 2006, Peter Eisentraut wrote: Joshua D. Drake wrote: Frankly, I don't care if we ever get a bug tracker or use trac. However a more formalized communication process is sorely needed IMHO. There's also supposed to be a wiki set up. Working on that, hope to have it up Sunday

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-06 Thread Kenneth Marshall
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 12:40:36PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: Guillaume Smet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And what about compression of on-disk sorting? That's purely a performance issue, which some people seem to want to define as not a new feature ... which is not *my* view of what's important

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-06 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# kleptog@svana.org / 2006-08-05 15:49:33 +0200: On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 06:25:35PM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote: I have heard you make this argument before, and it is just is not true. Even Debian is moving toward a more formal structure as has FreeBSD. You seem stuck in this world where

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-06 Thread Agent M
On Aug 5, 2006, at 10:48 PM, Christopher Browne wrote: Quoth [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Fetter): On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 02:37:56PM -0700, Neil Conway wrote: On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 12:40 -0700, David Fetter wrote: While I am not going to reopen the can of worms labeled 'bug tracker', I think

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-06 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 My impression from this post http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-07/msg00556.php was that moving it into core should be doable for 8.3. I hope I didn't misunderstand. As I've stated before, it sure would be nice if there was any

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-06 Thread Luke Lonergan
Greg, As I've stated before, it sure would be nice if there was any possible way this could be done for 8.2. This would be a *huge* feature for 8.2 to have, and it frankly needs all the big-item-yet-easy-to-grasp features it can get. Is there any way this could be done if we threw money

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-06 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: My impression from this post http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-07/msg00556.php was that moving it into core should be doable for 8.3. I hope I didn't misunderstand. As I've stated before, it sure would be nice if there was any possible way

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-06 Thread Tom Lane
Greg Sabino Mullane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there any way this could be done if we threw money and/or people at the problem? No. I'm constantly amazed at the way people get worked up about X-is-not-there *after* feature freeze. If you wanted it in 8.2, the time to be throwing resources

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-05 Thread Rick Gigger
If people are going to start listing features they want here's some things I think would be nice. I have no idea though if they would be useful to anyone else: 1) hierarchical / recursive queries. I realize it's just been discussed at length but since there was some question as to

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-05 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Joshua D. Drake wrote: Frankly, I don't care if we ever get a bug tracker or use trac. However a more formalized communication process is sorely needed IMHO. There's also supposed to be a wiki set up. There, people can try to make up tracking lists, project management, task lists, release

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-05 Thread andrew
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't object to someone informally polling people who have claimed a TODO item and not produced any visible progress for awhile. But I think anything like thou shalt report in once a week will merely drive people away from publicly claiming items, if not drive

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-05 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 12:19:54AM -0400, Matthew T. O'Connor wrote: Robert Treat wrote: So, the things I hear most non-postgresql people complain about wrt postgresql are: no full text indexing built in FTI is a biggie in my mind. I know it ain't happening for 8.2, but is the general

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-05 Thread Ron Mayer
Tom Lane wrote: But a quick troll through the CVS logs shows ... multi-row VALUES, not only for INSERT but everywhere SELECT is allowed ... multi-argument aggregates, including SQL2003-standard statistical aggregates ... standard_conforming_strings can be turned on (HUGE deal for some people)

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-05 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 06:25:35PM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote: I have heard you make this argument before, and it is just is not true. Even Debian is moving toward a more formal structure as has FreeBSD. You seem stuck in this world where everything is still 1994 and all FOSS software is

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-05 Thread Bruce Momjian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't object to someone informally polling people who have claimed a TODO item and not produced any visible progress for awhile. But I think anything like thou shalt report in once a week will merely drive people away from publicly

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-05 Thread Joshua D. Drake
There's also supposed to be a wiki set up. There, people can try to make up tracking lists, project management, task lists, release goals or whatever on their own. If patterns emerge, we can formalize them, but I feel this would be a good way to try things out. Well I will re-extend my

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-05 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Bruce Momjian wrote: I can assure you that individual developers were contacted about completing their items for 8.2, to the extent that some developers got upset at me because of my insistence. If they were hired by PostgreSQL companies and I had a relationship with their manager, their

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-05 Thread Joshua D. Drake
The fact is, the existing system worked as it should, though it is often invisible. We didn't get all the features we wanted, but that isn't because the system isn't working. Well that kind of comes back to my point of better communication. Perhaps a lot of this discussion could have been

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-05 Thread Tom Lane
Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org writes: On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 12:19:54AM -0400, Matthew T. O'Connor wrote: FTI is a biggie in my mind. I know it ain't happening for 8.2, but is the general plan to integrate TSearch2 directly into the backend? When the Tsearch developers say so I

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-05 Thread Ron Mayer
Tom Lane wrote: I tend to agree --- I don't see much value in trying to institute a formalized process. One more problem with the formalized process of claiming features in advance may stop what I suspect is a significant source of contributions -- people who add features/patches for internal

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-05 Thread andrew
Ron Mayer wrote: We have not had that many cases where lack of communication was a problem. One could say too much communication was the problem this time. I get the impression people implied they'd do something on a TODO and didn't. Arguably the project had been better off if noone had

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-05 Thread Ron Mayer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ron Mayer wrote: We have not had that many cases where lack of communication was a problem. One could say too much communication was the problem this time. I get the impression people implied they'd do something on a TODO and didn't. Arguably the project had been

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-05 Thread andrew
Tom Lane wrote: Martijn van Oosterhout kleptog@svana.org writes: On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 12:19:54AM -0400, Matthew T. O'Connor wrote: FTI is a biggie in my mind. I know it ain't happening for 8.2, but is the general plan to integrate TSearch2 directly into the backend? When the Tsearch

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-05 Thread Christopher Browne
In an attempt to throw the authorities off his trail, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim C. Nasby) transmitted: What say? It's a shame to have a person burn cycles on this, but anything would be an improvement over what we've got now. Anything includes some options that would probably *not* be

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-05 Thread Christopher Browne
Quoth [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Fetter): On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 02:37:56PM -0700, Neil Conway wrote: On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 12:40 -0700, David Fetter wrote: While I am not going to reopen the can of worms labeled 'bug tracker', I think it would be good to have a little more formality as far

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-04 Thread Luke Lonergan
+1 UPDATE/DELETE for CE are a big deal - I really wish we had INSERT too, then we'd be able to claim complete support for partitioning, but this is a big deal improvement. - Luke On 8/3/06 9:30 PM, Gavin Sherry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A lot of the things on Tom's list are new bits of

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-04 Thread David Fetter
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 12:37:10AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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? [ shrug... ] Five out of

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-04 Thread Hannu Krosing
Ühel kenal päeval, R, 2006-08-04 kell 00:46, kirjutas Bruce Momjian: Tom Lane wrote: Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-04 Thread Luke Lonergan
David, On 8/3/06 11:02 PM, David Fetter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Splitting queries among CPUs--possibly even among machines--for OLAP loads * In-place upgrades (pg_upgrade) * Several varieties of replication, which I believe we as a project will eventually endorse and ship *

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-04 Thread Josh Berkus
All, grin Aren't I, the marketing geek, supposed to be the one whining about this? Seriously, PostgreSQL has the fastest release cycle of any RDBMS project in the world. The request I'm hearing from large production users is to release *less* often. So I don't find it a problem that this

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-04 Thread Dennis Bjorklund
David Fetter skrev: As far as big missing features go, here's a short list: * Windowing functions If we are to wish for things the window functions and a proper collation/locale support is what I miss the most. /Dennis ---(end of

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-04 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 08:27:02AM +0200, Dennis Bjorklund wrote: If we are to wish for things the window functions and a proper collation/locale support is what I miss the most. Agreed. The complaints about collation/locale support have been continuous over the years, and it really is quite

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-04 Thread Andreas Pflug
Bruce Momjian wrote: Right, hence usability, not new enterprise features. I'm not too happy about the label usability. Ok, maybe postgres gets usable finally by supporting features that MySQL had for a long time a MySql guy would say. Regards, Andreas ---(end

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-04 Thread Adrian Maier
On 04/08/06, Andreas Pflug [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bruce Momjian wrote: Right, hence usability, not new enterprise features. I'm not too happy about the label usability. Ok, maybe postgres gets usable finally by supporting features that MySQL had for a long time a MySql guy would say.

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-04 Thread Guillaume Smet
On 8/4/06, Luke Lonergan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My ordering of this list in terms of priority is: 1) Windowing functions 2) MERGE 3) Index only access (new) 4) In-place upgrades And what about compression of on-disk sorting? There has been a long thread about this idea. Is there any news

Re: [HACKERS] 8.2 features status

2006-08-04 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Tom Lane wrote: Not that there's anything wrong with a performance-oriented release ... but if you think that 8.2 is short on features, you'd better get ready to be disappointed by every future release. It's a pity that some expectations have been raised about features that we haven't

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