Re: Nearing final release?

We see that the win32 version of PostgreSQL sometime does not respond
to pgbench -S running on Linux. Try something like:

pgbench -h windows_host -S -c 128 -t 1000 your_database

on Linux/FreeBSD/UNIX or whatever.
--
Tatsuo Ishii

> I think we are getting closer to a final release. I haven't seen many
> _major_ failures in a few weeks, and the open items list is shrinking. I
> would like us to make a concentrated effort to address or fix all the
> open items by November 1 and consider a final 8.0 release during November.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> PostgreSQL 8.0 Open Items
> =========================
>
> Current version at http://candle.pha.pa.us/cgi-bin/pgopenitems.
>
> Changes
> -------
> * Win32
> o fix query cancel in psql (?)
> o fix shared memory on Win2k terminal server
> o fix MSVC build to export SSL symbols
> o SIG_DFL handling
> o Handle "lost signals" on backend startup (eg. shutdown,
> config file changes, etc)
> * Tablespace
> o fix ambiguity for objects using default tablespaces
> o fix case where template db already uses target tablespace
> o fix error message when creating objects in schema that has a
> dropped tablespace as its default
> o remove non-portable TABLESPACE clause from CREATE TABLE using
> a SET or ALTER command
> * allow libpq to check parameterized data types
> * adjust bgwriter defaults, allow disabling
> * synchonize supported encodings and docs

> Completed Since Previoius Beta
> ------------------------------
> * cleanup FRONTEND use in /port, malloc, elog
> * update encoding list to include win1250
> * make pgxs install by default
> * Win32
> o disable readline-required psql options
> o fix SSL compiles
> o add binary version stamps
> o fix signal-safe socket handler for SSL
> o start pg_autovacuum easily
> o remove log timezone string from log_line_prefix '%t'
> o fix MinGW libpq to export only required symbols
>
>
>
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