Kevin Grittner wrote:
> Ron Mayer <rm_pg@cheapcomplexdevices.com> wrote:
>
> > I could imagine an enterprise plan that says "we'll upgrade to
> > the current production release in January [after christmas sales]";
> > or "we'll begin to upgrade the January after [feature-x] is in
> > production".
> >
> > But in neither case does it help my long term planning to know if
> > the current version January release is scheduled to be called 8.4
> > or 8.5 or 9.1 (which is really all that the current system helps
> > me predict).
>
> It would help with that if you didn't plan on features which had not
> been committed, and the release date didn't slip. It's been a little
> embarrassing at times to have told people not to try to mitigate
> performance problems on the application side because I've confirmed
> that the semijoin / antijoin code already committed to the 8.4 release
> solves the problem, and the release was expected around the start of
> the year.
Where did you see 8.4 was scheduled to be released around the start of
the year? I never never seen that and would have disputed anyone saying
it publicly.
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