Re: 8.1 development cycle (was a couple of other threads

On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, Robert Treat wrote:

> On Sunday 23 January 2005 05:23, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
>>> So are we looking at a 8.1 in June and a 8.2 in say August of 2006?
>>>
>>> Or something else?
>>>
>>> I know that it is hard to completely pin these things down but it would
>>> be really
>>> helpful :)
>>
>> I really don't know why this short dev cycle thing keeps coming back...
>> People don't want to upgrade their major production database servers
>> every 6 months. It'll be 6 months at my work before we move off 7.4,
>> and that's only because they have a reasonable postgres expert onsite
>> (me)...
>>
>
> Because there is a strong desire to get rid of ARC ASAP. Which I am
> comfortable with IF there is an agreement that 8.1 wont require an initdb. I
> certainly can't take down my production servers for the amount of time needed
> for dump/reload, so if that is going to be required then I'm sure we'll not
> do an upgrade until 8.1 is released, and I'd imagine a lot of others would
> fall into this as well.

Agreed, but there is also a fair amount of ppl that won't upgraded to 8.0
in the first place, and will wait for the first 8.1, and if we can keep
that cycle short enough, waiting the few extra months will be alot easier
for them ...

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