Re: 8.2 planning features

Its relatively easy for a Business to develop a roadmap, since the
managers delegate their programmers to work on specific features ... in
the case of an OSS project, there are no "assignment of features to work
on" happening ... ppl work on what is of interest to them ... so coming up
with anything more then a 'vapor-roadmap' is impossible ...

On Sat, 25 Mar 2006, Luke Lonergan wrote:

> Satoshi,
>
> On 3/21/06 3:59 PM, "satoshi nagayasu" <nagayasus(at)nttdata(dot)co(dot)jp> wrote:
>
>> However, we also need to know why business people want
>> to know about the future plan. For the business people,
>> the roadmap is used to know the software is fit to
>> their (growing) business, not only now but in the future.
>>
>> Roadmap can be changed, but still roadmap is necessary
>> for some kind of users.
>
> Absolutely.
>
> The Bitmap Index and Sort improvements are features that we have been
> developing for the last 10 months based directly on discussions with
> business customers. They will be release with Bizgres 0.9 next week, and
> contributed to Postgres shortly thereafter (sort already is).
>
> Others on our list of customer driven roadmap items:
>
> - OLAP functions: CUBE, ROLLUP, RANK
> - Resource management, incl. dynamic memory management and statement
> queueing
> - Postgres intrinsic log-shipping replication (we have one to contribute)
> - Transparent DML on partitions
>
> Whether these get into 8.2 or not, I'd welcome developer discussion. We are
> initiating some planning sessions in mid-April for the next 4-6 months of
> development.
>
> - Luke
>
>
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