Gavin M. Roy wrote:
> I wanted to push to see if I made a version of this patch against CVS
> head if we could see it included in 8.3.
>
> It's of clear value for people who use pg_dump and tablespaces. HOT
> and tsearch development still continues and implementations of each
> feature are still being discussed/debated as of this morning. It
> seems to me that 8.3 code base is not static and we're not at the bug
> cleanup phase of nearing release.
>
> This patch is minor and makes admin, backup and recovery much easier
> for people who use the tablespace feature and elect not to use
> pg_dumpall. I think waiting for 8.4 at this point is a bit silly,
> given the scope of code and impact of the patch.
You already got an answer to this question, and you replied:
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2007-07/msg00167.php
If you want it in 8.3 you are going to need some community members to
take ownership of the patch, take responsibility for it, testing it, etc,
and argue that a feature addition that arrived in July should be added.
Not impossible, but you are going to need advocates for this.
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