Re: [HACKERS] Re: HISTORY for 6.5.2

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org>
Cc: Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Re: HISTORY for 6.5.2
Date: 1999-09-13 17:55:09
Message-ID: 199909131755.NAA23592@candle.pha.pa.us
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> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > The bad news is that those patches are too large/significant for a minor
> > release. They could affect other platforms adversely, so we can't apply
> > them until 6.6.
>
> Ok, mung time, then. That means RedHat will be releasing 6.5.1 with
> RedHat 6.1, unless those patches can be munged relatively easily. Alpha
> is a big platform for RedHat.
>

It would be very valid to apply Uncle George's patches to a 6.5.2
alpha-only release. If we had an alpha-only release, we would apply
them too.

Our problem is that minor releases don't get the same cross-platform
testing as major releases.

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