Re: ARC patent

From: "Matthew T(dot) O'Connor" <matthew(at)zeut(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Jeff Davis <jdavis-pgsql(at)empires(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: ARC patent
Date: 2005-01-19 16:50:33
Message-ID: 41EE8FD9.7080309@zeut.net
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Tom Lane wrote:

>Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> writes:
>
>
>>So is it firm policy that changes that require a catversion update
>>cannot be made during the 8.1 cycle?
>>
>>
>
>Not yet --- I suggested it but didn't get any yeas or nays. I don't
>feel this is solely core's decision anyway ... what do the assembled
>hackers think?
>

My personal goal for 8.1 is to get autovacuum integrated into the
backend. The patch I submitted during the 8.0 dev cycle required a new
system table for autovacuum data. Anyway we could get around that
without bumping catversion? Perhaps the vacuum daemon could add the
table if it's not found?

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