Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Not 7.5, but 8.0 ?

Mike Mascari <mascarm(at)mascari(dot)com> writes:

> 1) PITR
> 2) Distributed Tx
> 3) Replication
> 4) Nested Tx
> 5) PL/SQL Exception Handling

Of these PITR seems *by far* the most important. It makes the difference
between an enterprise-class database capable of running 24x7 with disaster
recovery plans, and a lesser beast that needs to be shut down for cold backups
periodically.

Features like Nested Transactions and Exception Handling are "would be nice"
features. Especially for pre-existing code-bases. But for new projects they're
not things that make the difference between measuring up and not.

Besides, Oracle 8 had Replication the way Mysql has transactions... It a
recently bolted-on addition that only worked in limited cases until a few
rewrites later.

Oh, and yeah, a win32 port. Yay, another OS port. Postgres runs on dozens of
OSes already. What's so exciting about one more? Even if it is a
pathologically hard OS to port to. Just because it was hard doesn't mean it's
useful.

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greg