Re: 7.4RC1 planned for Monday

From: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Joshua Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: 7.4RC1 planned for Monday
Date: 2003-10-31 23:27:02
Message-ID: 1067642822.370.12.camel@tokyo
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On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 23:13, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> If we do a short cycle, will we have enough features to justify a
> release? We could try to get PITR and Win32 done by January 1 and see
> if that can happen.

It's worth noting that we've thought about doing "quick" major releases
in the past, without much success: originally, 7.4 was going to be
"Win32 + PITR, released in a few months", and look how that turned out
:-)

Since the cost of migrating to a new major release is more-or-less
constant (you need a complete initdb+reload whether the release took 3
weeks or 3 years), I'm still not in favour of a short release cycle. But
in any case, the whole debate is somewhat academic unless someone does
the work to get PITR and Win32 done very quickly.

-Neil

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