Joshua D. Drake wrote:

>
> For most things probably not that possible. For things like:
>
> Simple feature enhancements (preloading of libs) 


How long is a piece of string? When does something stop being simple?

>
> Fixing pl/Language bugs (and making sure they still work on 7.3)
> Buffer overflow fixes 


Everyone seems to agree that bugs should be fixed.

>
> Security problems (the fact that alter user/createuser with encrypted 
> password ' will go into a .psqlhistory file is horrendous) 


you can avoid this in the create case by using createuser -P instead of 
psql. Or by using psql -c (although that might put stuff in your shell 
history ;-)
Maybe there's a good case for an alteruser counterpart to createuser.

>
> pg_dump/pg_restore enhancements
>
Which ones? If it is things known to be broken being fixed that comes 
under the bug fix category.

cheers

andrew

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