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PostgreSQL Development Priorities. The top two for 8.4 are “Simple built-in replication” and “Upgrade-in-place”, Josh Berkus is seeking feedback on priorities for future work on 8.5.

# 28th May 2009, 8:08 pm / postgresql, replication, josh-berkus, databases, open-source

What happened to Hot Standby? Hot Standby (the ability to have read-only replication slaves) has been dropped from PostgreSQL 8.4 and is now scheduled for 8.5. “Making hard decisions to postpone features which aren’t quite ready is how PostgreSQL makes sure that our DBMS is ”bulletproof“ and that we release close to on-time every year”.

# 8th March 2009, 9:28 am / postgresql, replication, hotstandby, josh-berkus, scaling, databases

Sun To Acquire MySQL. Sun also employ Josh Berkus, one of the lead developers of PostgreSQL.

# 16th January 2008, 1:55 pm / mysql, postgresql, sunmicrosystems, sun, tim-oreilly, databases, open-source, josh-berkus