Re: Support for QNX6, POSIX IPC and PTHREAD-style locking

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Ross J(dot) Reedstrom" <reedstrm(at)rice(dot)edu>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Igor Kovalenko <Igor(dot)Kovalenko(at)motorola(dot)com>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Support for QNX6, POSIX IPC and PTHREAD-style locking
Date: 2001-11-27 17:41:04
Message-ID: 200111271741.fARHf4Y26359@candle.pha.pa.us
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> On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 10:49:31AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > "Ross J. Reedstrom" <reedstrm(at)rice(dot)edu> writes:
> > > ... submission for 7.3 (in about two weeks).
> >
> > That's probably overly optimistic; if things don't slip any more,
> > it's still unlikely that we'll open the 7.3 branch for development
> > before the first of the year. Traditionally we don't make the branch
> > immediately after release, because there are always a few bugs
> > justifying a dot-1 release that somehow sneak through beta testing.
> > It's easier to deal with these if we don't have to double-patch both
> > current and stable branches.
>
> I guess I was repeating something from earlier up the thread. However,
> given how long this beta has been, we _might_ find very few things
> to fix, so the 'double-patch' burden might be small. <finger crossed>
> I know there are a lot of people holding patches for 7.3, as well. It
> might be good to try to get it opened before the inter-holiday week,
> since people often manage to find some free time then.

Yes, exactly what I suspect, and also my personal target date for a
branch.

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