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From: Josh Berkus <[email protected]>
To: Tim Conrad <[email protected]>
To: Marc G. Fournier <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL advocacy <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Upcoming Features WAS: What can we learn from MySQL?
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 10:30:28 -0700
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Tim,

Ok, first off, taking this thread off Hackers where it's not necessary.

> Seriously, though. I was looking through the list yesterday trying
> to figure out something, and it was kind of hard to do.But, more to
> my point, this stuff is in the MySQL manual, making it easy to find.
> (Yes. I know what MySQL includes kind of blows, but, it's better
> than nothing)

Well, our issue is that we have a significant phobia of announcing features 
that we can't deliver.    A lot of us are still embarassed over the 
7.4+Windows thing.  And many, many other features got as far as a first-round 
patch and then died for a variety of reasons, or have had their development 
drag on for 3 years (2PC comes to mind).

I guess there's a perception that we are "above" the marketeering of MySQL and 
Microsoft, where features are promised as much as 6 years before they appear, 
or are heavily publicized while still in alpha.   So the most you'd be likely 
to get the community to commit to is maintaining a list of easy-to-read 
"Major Features in Development".

Which wouldn't be a bad idea, at that.  But not in the Docs ;-)

-- 
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

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