Re: bgwriter changes

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: bgwriter changes
Date: 2004-12-14 15:23:49
Message-ID: 41BF0585.5080907@dunslane.net
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Tom Lane wrote:

>However, due consideration should also be given to
>
>(4) Do nothing until 8.1.
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>At this point in the release cycle I'm not sure we should be making
>any significant changes for anything less than a crashing bug.
>
>
>

If that's not the policy, then I don't understand the dev cycle state
labels used.

In the commercial world, my approach would be that if this was
determined to be necessary (about which I am moderately agnostic) then
we would abort the current RC stage, effectively postponing the release.

cheers

andrew

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