Without insight into what the AWS RDS team workload and priorities are, I think it's unfair to use a term like disturbingly. Sure, as a user, we want features to be rolled out as quickly as possible. From what I've seen, Postgres RDS support has been slow, but consistently getting better: nothing to warrant suggesting Amazon isn't serious about continuing to improve their Postgres offering. That would be disturbing. Or data loss failures. Slower-than-I'd-like roll-out of new features? Frustrating.
By all means, RDS isn't perfect. It doesn't suit my current needs. But I understand that getting these things to work in a managed way that suits the needs of most customers is not an easy task. I'll remain frustrated in some small way until RDS does suit my needs. I hope they continue to add features to give customers more flexibility. And from what I've seen, they likely will.
By all means, RDS isn't perfect. It doesn't suit my current needs. But I understand that getting these things to work in a managed way that suits the needs of most customers is not an easy task. I'll remain frustrated in some small way until RDS does suit my needs. I hope they continue to add features to give customers more flexibility. And from what I've seen, they likely will.