3. pglogical will probably reach release quality before next year,
making this release the "hot upgrade" release.
I think it's dangerous to bet on something like that. While I certainly hope and think it will be, we certainly don't know.
We don't know Postgres 9.6 will be release quality either by Sept, but we are taking to steps to ensure it is.
The question is whether others take an interest in doing the same thing for pglogical. I suggest that it is more about acceptance of the technology than it is about software quality, which is easy to measure. Perhaps that is just a matter of time.
I agree with that.
It's hard enough to predict what will be release quality by Sept. We should not base our marketing efforts on what we think will happen *another year* in the future. We should push that marketing effort then, when we have the product.
The product exists and has been released under the correct licence. When do you consider "when we have the product" occurs? Surely it is here and now that we have the product, so therefore the time is now to do marketing.
So this is probably just highlighting how I'm not up to date on the -advocacy discussion :) But I thought the idea was to have it integrated, and that *that* was "the product" in this case. As in the "breaker that makes it possible to do transparent upgrades without external products". Which I thought was the target for next release, not this release. But I may be confusing multiple discussion, and as such contributing to the confusion.