From: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | "Henry B(dot) Hotz" <hotz(at)jpl(dot)nasa(dot)gov> |
Cc: | PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Daemon News article |
Date: | 1999-05-30 01:37:40 |
Message-ID: | 199905300137.VAA18939@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> Responding to what Bruce wrote while I was writing this note: I don't
> entirely agree with the comment about gcc. Before egcs they generally had
> a "stable" release, e.g. 2.5.8, or 2.6.3, or 2.7.2.x that was being widely
> used while there was also a "current" release like 2.6.1, or 2.7.1, or
> 2.8.0. In their case there was also an internal-only alpha/beta version
> which we never saw. Coming from this background I found it difficult to
> evaluate the stability of various Postgres versions because there was no
> parallel maintenance of a "stable patched" version independent of the
> "development" version.
I am thinking of the earlier 2.x releases, and even the 1.x releases.
It was very fluid for quite a while.
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