Re: AW: [HACKERS] pg_dump core dump, upgrading from 6.5b1 to 5/24 sna pshot

ZEUGSWETTER Andreas IZ5 <Andreas(dot)Zeugswetter(at)telecom(dot)at> wrote:
>Wow, the beta is actually for people to test out if their applications will
>work on the new version 6.5. It is by no way for actual use, only for
>testing.
>Please use 6.4.2 until 6.5 is released.

I was running 6.4.2 but it had a terrible memory and/or table leak that
made it unuseable--one table got to 1GB the last week I used 6.4.2, with
only a few MB of real data. Vacuum was crashing, pg_dump was crashing, the
backend was dying. I had to go to 6.5b, which fortunately seems to have
fixed the exploding table problem.

>Marc, can you name the betas something like alpha and not beta,
>since beta seems to sound like something to use for productive work
>to a lot of people (like everyone uses squid beta versions)

Beta does sound more reliable than alpha.

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