Re: pgsql-server: Update that 8.0 will support MS Win

Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Is the release notes even the right place for it? When you read the
> release notes after 8.1 is released, do you want to read that Win32
> had possible problems in 8.0?

Sure you do. The release notes are historical material. There is
plenty of stuff in there that's totally irrelevant now, but we have
not (and I trust will not) gone back and removed entries that are no
longer significant.

> Perhaps we should mention it in the
> release announcement instead?

Why are you so insistent on sweeping this point under the rug? I'd much
rather underpromise and overdeliver than the reverse. We have plenty of
reason to be suspicious of the native Windows port at this stage ...
if you think it's going to be problem-free, I refer you to
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/2004-08/msg00307.php
for the counterexample du jour. You'd be nuts to think that we'll find
every one of these issues before 8.0 release.

regards, tom lane