Re: [HACKERS] v6.4.3 ?

From: jwieck(at)debis(dot)com (Jan Wieck)
To: tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us (Tom Lane)
Cc: jwieck(at)debis(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] v6.4.3 ?
Date: 1999-02-08 01:07:32
Message-ID: m109fAj-000EBRC@orion.SAPserv.Hamburg.dsh.de
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Tom Lane wrote:

> We have to be pretty careful with these back-rev patches, since they
> typically aren't going to get much testing in the back version's
> CVS tree. So I'm leery of applying anything that hasn't been tested
> for a while in the development branch.

Over careful! They might rely on new features that aren't
there. So it's better to wait for a v6.4.* based bug report
and fix them by hand instead of appying complete patches that
fix it on the fly.

Jan

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