| From: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Rob Butler <crodster2k(at)yahoo(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Dennis Bjorklund <db(at)zigo(dot)dhs(dot)org>, Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Win32 port list <pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Win32 release warning |
| Date: | 2004-08-26 16:35:35 |
| Message-ID: | 20040826133422.C30872@ganymede.hub.org |
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On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Tom Lane wrote:
> Rob Butler <crodster2k(at)yahoo(dot)com> writes:
>> That makes it sound as if you didn't do the same level
>> of testing on *this* release, like it didn't go
>> through all the tests or something.
>
>> How about "it does not have the extensive testing
>> history that other supported platforms in this release
>> have."
>
> Not bad, but it doesn't make the point that there's a lot of new
> platform-specific code for Windows in there. You want to point
> out not only that there's no history, but that there's new code to be
> suspicious of.
"Altho tested throughout our release cycle, the Windows port does not have
the benefit of the years of testing that has gone into the Unix platforms,
and, as such, should be treated with the same level of caution as you
would a new product"
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