PostgreSQL: the good, the bad, and the ugly
PostgreSQL: the good, the bad, and the ugly
The PostgreSQL development community is working toward the 9.5 release, currently planned for the third quarter of this year. Development activity is at peak levels as the planned feature freeze for this release approaches. While this activity is resulting in the merging of some interesting functionality, including the long-awaited "upsert" feature, it is also revealing some fault lines within the community. The fact that PostgreSQL lacks the review resources needed to keep up with its natural rate of change has been understood for years; many other projects suffer from the same problem. But the pressures on PostgreSQL seem to be becoming more acute, leading to concerns about fairness in the community and the durability of the project's cherished reputation for high-quality software.