Re: Recovery Test Framework

On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 11:18 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:

> > My point is that what Simon currently has (and so what you tested) is
> > different from what is going to be commited (note the "final" in what
> > I wrote) and I suspect there will be a certain number of non
> > negligible adjustments (see the last discussions between Simon and
> > Heikki and I don't think Tom has taken a look at these patches yet).
>
> The thing that's disturbing me is that (to judge by what I've been
> seeing on the mailing list) there's been a steady stream of "non
> negligible adjustments" for the past two months. That's good from
> the standpoint that problems are getting found and fixed, but it's
> not giving me any warm fuzzies about the code being ready to go.

This is the same thing that makes me nervous. The feature appears to be
"Under heavy development". As I understand the development model the
heavy development is supposed to happen before commit fest.
>
> Basically I think we are up against the same type of project management
> decision we've had several times before: are we willing to slip the
> 8.4 release schedule for however long it will take for hot standby
> and the other replication-related features to be ready?

I would certainly not like to see 8.4 slip.

> At this point
> I think there can be no question that it will not be a small slip;
> in fact I'm not even prepared to guess at how long it will take.

Not a comforting thought.

Sincerely,

Joshua D Drake

>
> regards, tom lane
>
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