Rails core - Mar 2006 - Validations broken for "external" ActiveRecord models, Rails 1.1 question

I just posted this defect, not sure what the group would rate the  
severity, but it would be nice to know at least why it doesn''t work -  
its been driving me crazy all night!

http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/4059

Can''t wait for 1.1!  Any chance the ActiveRecord connection pooling  
adapter will make it in?

Greg