Re: Major features for 9.1

On ons, 2011-04-06 at 19:13 +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 19:10, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> > On fre, 2011-04-01 at 12:21 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> >> Here's a list of the features which seem to me to be major enough to
> >> be
> >> headliners for 9.1. Please mark which ones you think are major/not
> >> major/not major and anything you think I've forgotten.
> >
> > I guess it's not really a big feature, but the functional dependency
> > tracking feature that allows trimming down GROUP BY lists will
> > significantly cut down on questions and "bug reports" from especially
> > MySQL converts.
>
> Are you sure? Many of the cases I've come across aren't covered by it,
> because they're not actually functional dependencies... They're just
> using the "give me whatever row you can think of feature" in mysql. So
> while this certainly helps, I'm ont sure it will make a significant
> cut in the number of questions...

Yes, many cases will still not work, but many will.