> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Browne [mailto:cbbrowne at ca.afilias.info] 
> Sent: 25 September 2005 21:41
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: Slony Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Slony1-general] 1.2 Release schedule
> 
> "Dave Page" <dpage at vale-housing.co.uk> writes:
> > I was wondering if there was a plan for version 1.2, or is it just a
> > case of hacking until the new feature list looks long enough? :-)
> >
> > The reason I ask is because it would be good (well, for some of us
> > at least!) to get an official release out supporting Windows. I've
> > already been getting people asking for a build to run, and of course
> > have turned them down in case they end up with any incompatibilities
> > in the snapshot I might have given them and the eventual release
> > version.
> 
> I'd like to see Darcy's "new test bed" in, as well as something of a
> set of tests based on that.

I was expecting to have seen that already - unless he's had a major
rethink, it seemed pretty much complete (well, the framework at least)
when I was helping him out with it a while back.

> I'd also like to see his "fast COPY" in place; that would be a very
> worthwhile performance improvement.

OK.

> I'd somewhat like to get my "rotating between sl_log_1 and sl_log_2"
> patch in; that has been proving troublesome on the SPI function side
> of things.  (I'm suspicious that I'm getting some sort of "off by 1"
> pointer problem there.)

OK.

> There are a couple of strategies I have been looking at to cut down on
> pg_listener "dead tuples" which are probably worth trying further.

OK.

> There is a patch based on my work to improve the "big sl_log_1 query"
> which is pretty near readiness, assuming Hannu's revisions are OK.

OK.
 
> If we could get about 4 of those, along with the changes already in to
> address Windows support, "holding nodes behind", and such, that's
> pretty worthy of a 1.2 release.  The "big work" is, frankly, to get
> the "new test bed" in and to construct tests for various known
> troublesome conditions so that this test bed essentially replaces
> what's in the "ducttape" directory.

OK, thanks. It's sounds like it's going to be later rather than sooner
at the moment - which is a relief in some ways if I'm honest!!.

Regards, Dave.