From: Chris T. <chr...@gm...> - 2011-10-18 15:47:18
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Wolfgang, Thank you for that summary. It confirms my anecdotal experience that the system seemed to be converging and that the major developments were coming to a close. The improvements in indexing and performance have been quite noticeable for us and greatly appreciated. I can work with the permissions issue I think - it just kind of caught me off guard. As you pointed out in another post there's a lot of stuff that does Chris On Oct 18, 2011, at 7:49 PM, Wolfgang Meier wrote: >> In fact what what other major items are on the to do list for the next stabilization - 1.6? > > There are not many issues which block a first beta release towards the > next stable version: > > * there's a deadlock situation in the security manager - or rather: > the Configuration class which reads account information. This is easy > to reproduce but not so easy to fix. The changes Adam mentioned should > be addressing this issue. > * we have to provide a faster method for backing up large databases. > This was discussed on this list a few days ago. > * a few changes on the surface: we started to move all demo code out > of trunk and into installable packages. This has to be finished and > the web site changed accordingly to explain people how to get to the > demos. > > Apart from this, I have one thing on my list to further improve > performance. It is not required for 1.6, but would be nice to have: > redesign the range index in the same way as the structural index. The > reorganization of the structural index has led to a major performance > boost for complex queries. Now it's the range index which is blocking > further speed ups and should be changed along the same lines. > > Wolfgang |