Re: [HACKERS] LONG varsize - how to go on

> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > Oh, got it. You are going to implement long tuples for only the lztext
> > type at first. Excellent idea. Did you see someone on the general list
> > already is asking about long tuples for 7.0? I replied on our current
> > status.
>
> I've seen several such questions these days. And I fear, if
> I'm not able to get at least the required catalog changes
> into 7.0, I'd have to wait until after 7.0 freeze + CVS
> branch before I can start at all. That'd cost us too much
> time.
>
> I know that I can deal with a bunch of deferred patches,
> staying in sync with CURRENT and having new features only as
> patches. But that worx only as long as I have most catalog
> changes in CURRENT. One single concurrent catalog change can
> cost me days of work in the worst case otherwise.

The Feb 1 date is not set in stone. If you would prefer March 1, we can
look at that option.

I pushed for an earlier release because I didn't want to wait for _all_
open items to be completed before a release.

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