Re: Autovacuum Integration Patch Take 5

Tom Lane wrote:

>"Matthew T. O'Connor" <matthew(at)zeut(dot)net> writes:
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>>Well I didn't get out of the office as early as I had hoped, and I have
>>stayed up longer than I had planned, but I have a patch that addresses
>>many of the issues raised by Tom. Please take a look at let me know if
>>I'm heading in the right direction.
>>
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>You're headed in the right direction, but I'm afraid we're running out
>of time. The core committee has chewed this over and agreed that we
>can't postpone beta for the amount of time we think it will take to make
>this patch committable. So we're going to hold it over for the 8.1
>release cycle.
>

BTW, I know people are eager for 8.0, but given that our release cycle
is so long, and that by everyones estimates we are at least 3 months
away from a release, what is the hurry for beta? A few more days to get
this feature in wouldn't hurt, it was submittted before feature freeze,
and I have been waiting weeks on end to get feedback.