Re: 8.5 release timetable, again

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Bruce Momjian<bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> Robert Haas wrote:
>> As I've said before, I am presently of the opinion that Streaming
>> Replication has little chance of making it into 8.5.  This opinion is
>> vulnerable to contrary evidence, like a new version of the patch
>> showing up that shows massive progress.  But the patch was bounced
>> from CF 2009-07 for a whole series of architectural problems which
>> have to be addressed before we can even get to implementation details,
>> bugs, documentation, etc.  Hot Standby is in better shape but amount
>> of code cleanup needed is substantial and there is also quite a bit of
>> 'git diff master | grep XXX' that needs to be gone through.
>
> I agree.  I think it is unlikely we will have anything ready to commit
> for Streaming Replication or Hot Standby for the next commit-fest in
> mid-September, and if we go for a 3-CF (commit fest) release, that gives
> us only one final CF to get those features accepted, again unlikely.  We
> are either going to need to go to a 4-CF release, change the way we are
> developing these patches, or both to get either in 8.5.

I don't think a 4-CF release is going to help. It's just going to be
2 more months before everything else that has been done gets released.
Call me a pessimist if you will, but zero times an arbitrary number
of CommitFests is still zero.

The only solution here is to get more people working on these patches.
I have volunteered to work on HS and would also be willing to work on
SR. Work can be reviewing or actual code. But I cannot work on a
patch I cannot see, and neither can anyone else.

...Robert