X-Original-To: pgsql-hackers-postgresql.org@postgresql.org Received: from localhost (wm.hub.org [200.46.204.128]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 797039FB410 for ; Fri, 1 Sep 2006 20:08:52 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.128]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 33541-03 for ; Fri, 1 Sep 2006 23:08:43 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 552409FB576 for ; Fri, 1 Sep 2006 19:25:58 -0300 (ADT) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 01 Sep 2006 22:25:56 -0000 Received: from dslb-084-063-058-225.pools.arcor-ip.net (EHLO colt.pezone.net) [84.63.58.225] by mail.gmx.net (mp042) with SMTP; 02 Sep 2006 00:25:56 +0200 X-Authenticated: #495269 From: Peter Eisentraut To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Getting a move on for 8.2 beta Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2006 00:25:54 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 Cc: "Joshua D. Drake" , Tom Lane References: <5364.1157125854@sss.pgh.pa.us> <20304.1157141401@sss.pgh.pa.us> <44F8992A.8030600@commandprompt.com> In-Reply-To: <44F8992A.8030600@commandprompt.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200609020025.55490.peter_e@gmx.net> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200609/74 X-Sequence-Number: 89603 Joshua D. Drake wrote: > Let's take multiple-argument aggregate functions for example... The > marketable portion of that is limited. 85% of the people we are > marketing too don't even know what that means. Heck, I haven't even > run into the pervious limitation :) As far as market analysis goes, I'd guess that 100% of the people who already use PostgreSQL by definition don't need any new features and would rather see incremental improvements across the board, which is what this or any release would give them. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/