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

2005-02-28 Thread Simon Riggs
Thanks to all replies on this thread over last few days, many good point and useful contributions, thank you. [Please excuse many non-replies, since I've been ill.] On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 09:41 -0800, Josh Berkus wrote: - What are you working towards? Performance? Stability? X? X, definitely

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

2005-02-28 Thread Serguei A. Mokhov
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. pg_upgrade -- Serguei A. Mokhov| /~\The ASCII Computer Science Department | \ / Ribbon Campaign

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

2005-02-25 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Simon Riggs wrote: - When is the next release due? Based on past discussions on a 12 to 18 month dev cycle for 8.1, and based on past track record, I'd say closer to the 18 month, so figure on June '06, with freeze in January of '06 (12 month dev, 6 month beta) ... subject

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

2005-02-25 Thread Bruce Momjian
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Simon Riggs wrote: - When is the next release due? Based on past discussions on a 12 to 18 month dev cycle for 8.1, and based on past track record, I'd say closer to the 18 month, so figure on June '06, with freeze in January of '06 (12

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

2005-02-25 Thread Robert Treat
On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 05:34, 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

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

2005-02-25 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
I would agree that since we have a number of commercial developers who do have intentions of working on specific items in 8.1, it would be nice to list those items somewhere (the urgent section of the TODO seems fine), but it is up to those developers to speak up. I'd like to bundle pg_dump and

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

2005-02-25 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Am Freitag, 25. Februar 2005 15:42 schrieb Marc G. Fournier: Based on past discussions on a 12 to 18 month dev cycle for 8.1, and based on past track record, I'd say closer to the 18 month, so figure on June '06, with freeze in January of '06 (12 month dev, 6 month beta) ... subject to change,

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

2005-02-25 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Peter Eisentraut wrote: Am Freitag, 25. Februar 2005 15:42 schrieb Marc G. Fournier: Based on past discussions on a 12 to 18 month dev cycle for 8.1, and based on past track record, I'd say closer to the 18 month, so figure on June '06, with freeze in January of '06 (12 month

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

2005-02-25 Thread Josh Berkus
Simon, Welcome back! Ready to get to work? I need to talk to you about some stuff - When is the next release due? Each of our previous 4 releases has taken between 11 and 14 months. So, early 2006 would not be unlikely; however, we have set no dates yet. - What will be in