| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: autovacuum causing numerous regression-test failures |
| Date: | 2006-08-28 22:13:35 |
| Message-ID: | 20060828221335.GC13899@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Neil Conway wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 15:21 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > We have more than enough problems to fix for 8.2 already. Let's
> > try to do this early in the 8.3 cycle instead.
>
> I agree -- I think this is exactly the sort of change that is best made
> at the beginning of a development cycle, so that there's a whole cycle's
> worth of testing to ensure it plays nicely with the rest of the system.
On the other hand, the bug Tom found on DROP OWNED a couple of weeks ago
was introduced right at the start of this development cycle, which tells
us that our testing of the development branch is not very exhaustive.
But I agree anyway.
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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support
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