On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 5:42 PM, Andreas Joseph Krogh <andr...@visena.com> wrote:
> På fredag 13. mai 2016 kl. 17:05:23, skrev Robert Haas < > robertmh...@gmail.com>: > > Hi, > > There is a long-running thread on pgsql-hackers on whether 9.6 should > instead be called 10.0. Initially, opinions were mixed, but consensus > seems now to have emerged that 10.0 is a good choice, with the major > hesitation being that we've already released 9.6beta1, and therefore > we might not want to change at this point. That doesn't seem like an > insuperable barrier to me, but I think it's now time for the > discussion on this topic to move here, because: > > 1. Some people who have strong opinions may not have followed the > discussion on pgsql-advocacy, and > > 2. If we're going to rebrand this as 10.0, the work will have to get done > here. > > The major arguments advanced in favor of 10.0 are: > > - There are a lot of exciting features in this release. > > - Even if you aren't super-excited by the features in this release, > PostgreSQL 9.6/10.0 is a world away from 10.0, and therefore it makes > sense to bump the version based on the amount of accumulated change > between then and now. > > Thoughts? Is it crazy to go from 9.6beta1 to 10.0beta2? What would > actually be involved in making the change? > > > From a non-hacker... > > From a DBA/application-developer perspective while there are many exiting > features in 9.6 I'd expect more from 10.0, like some of these features: > - Built in "Drop-in replacement" Multi-master replication > - Built-in per-database replication with sequences and DDL-changes > (future versions of pglogical might solve this) > - Full (and effective) parallelism "everywhere" > - Improved executor (like Robert Haas suggested), more use of LLVM or > similar > - All of Postgres Pro's GIN-improvements for really fast FTS (with proper, > index-backed, sorting etc.) > - Pluggable storage-engines > > I'm willing to declare that the likelihood you getting all of these in one release is zero. And there will always be "one more feature left". -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/
