Re: Can we revisit the thought of PostgreSQL 7.2.4?

From: "Ross J(dot) Reedstrom" <reedstrm(at)rice(dot)edu>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org>, Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, Justin Clift <justin(at)postgresql(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Hackers Mailing List <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Can we revisit the thought of PostgreSQL 7.2.4?
Date: 2003-01-26 16:17:43
Message-ID: 20030126161742.GA20331@wallace.ece.rice.edu
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-hackers

On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 09:55:25PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Lamar Owen wrote:
> > We'll see how it pans out, I guess.
> >
> > Red Hat certainly thought it was worth spending some time on; reference their
> > back porting of the fixes to versions as old as 6.5.3.
>
> If we can get them all, it is a big win. If we can't, I don't think it
> is a win.

In the context of backporting, this is true, but in general, if you
don't worry about putting locks on any of the doors, because there are
other ones open, you _never_ get them all.

Ross

In response to

Responses

Browse pgsql-hackers by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Tom Lane 2003-01-26 19:09:49 Re: New hashed IN code ignores distinctiveness of subquery
Previous Message Oliver Elphick 2003-01-26 16:03:00 Re: [SQL] Function for adding Money type