Re: 8.2 features status
От | Robert Treat |
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Тема | Re: 8.2 features status |
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Msg-id | 200608042235.20456.xzilla@users.sourceforge.net обсуждение исходный текст |
Ответ на | Re: 8.2 features status (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>) |
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Re: 8.2 features status
Re: 8.2 features status |
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On Friday 04 August 2006 21:19, Tom Lane wrote: > Rick Gigger <rick@alpinenetworking.com> writes: > > So if you define "major features" as class A features. In this case > > major doesn't mean important or useful or difficult to implement, > > just that they are the sort of features that one might be told to > > look for when shopping for a database. So in terms of marketing > > PITR, two phase commit, WIN32 support were very much "major" features. > > You have a point: 8.0 and 8.1 had much more buzzword-compliant stuff > added. The truth of the matter is that a lot of that stuff was pretty > rough-edged in actual use, and now we're starting to smooth it out and > make it more readily usable. So in terms of *usable* PITR etc we're > only now getting there with 8.2. But that's not a bullet point that > impresses PHBs. > > > That being said I think that two of the not-yet-reviewed features are > > just as "major" as the "major" features from the past two releases. > > > > 1) updatable views - I won't really use this but it just seems like > > one of those features that people use when doing rdbms features > > comparison charts. > > Agreed, if this gets in it will be a Real Biggie. I de-emphasized it > in my list because I haven't looked at the patch yet and so have no > idea whether it's any good, but I fully agree it's a PHB-worthy > bullet point if it works. > Hmm.. I would de-emphasize it because it doesn't give us give us anything we couldn't do before; and really what we can do now is way above most database systems. > > 2) restartable recovery (allow checkpoints for a hot-standby server) > > - Having the ability to have a hot standby database is a HUGE feature > > in my book. > > Again, we claimed to have hot standby in 8.1, and we sort of did, it > just didn't work all that nicely. This will file down one seriously > rough edge, but is that a good marketing bullet point? Probably not. > So, the things I hear most non-postgresql people complain about wrt postgresql are: no full text indexing built in no replication built in no stored procedures (with a mix of wanting in db cron facility) the planner is not smart enough (with a mix of wanting hints) vacuum leads to unpredictable performance Of that list, they could probably all be turned into nice marketing points (though #4 is pretty nebulous), though I don't see any of them getting resolved anytime soon. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL
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