Re: [CORE] RC1 blocker issues

> > Of course they do, again need not want. CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY is
> > a great feature but it isn't something that is whiz, bang, pow (such
> > as the enormous performance increase between 7.4/8.0 and 8.1).
> > 
> > Our most active customers, even those with many hundreds of millions
> > of rows per table, can create an index reasonably quick based on the
> > hardware they run. They just schedule it to run after hours or on
> > off peak.
> 
> All that needs to happen is for this to take 49 hours.  Suddenly,
> there's a use case ;)

Agreed :) 

> > Of course every feature in 8.2 is appreciated, but that doesn't mean
> > I have customers clamoring for them. I am just now getting most of
> > our customers to move to 8.1. I still have many customers on 7.3.
> 
> That's a big problem for both you and your customers.  At some point
> in the not too distant future, 7.3 will get EOLed.

Not a big problem for me, a big problem for the customer. They have all
been warned. I will smile humbly as I collect the migration check.

>  
> > Especially since many of my customers are now running multi-hundred
> > gigabyte databases. They need a serious reason to upgrade because it
> > will be a long outage.
> 
> The performance and feature gains from 8.1 to 8.2 are fairly easy to
> justify on this scale.

Not if they aren't having performance problems now.

> > Which pushes them to 8.4 potentially, which makes things even more
> > interesting because what I list above, is what *my* customers want
> > and have wanted for a long time (and yes, I tell them the same thing
> > everytime... any time you want to cough up some money, I will put
> > developers on it :)).
> 
> Have any of them gotten close to doing this?  What approaches have you
> tried?

ODBCng was a successful project that was a direct correlation between
need and solutions available.

Joshua D. Drake

> 
> Cheers,
> D
-- 
     === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. ===
Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 || 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240
Providing the most comprehensive  PostgreSQL solutions since 1997            http://www.commandprompt.com/

Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate