Re: Win32 release warning

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Rob Butler <crodster2k(at)yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Dennis Bjorklund <db(at)zigo(dot)dhs(dot)org>, Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Win32 port list <pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Win32 release warning
Date: 2004-08-26 16:26:16
Message-ID: 23456.1093537576@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Rob Butler <crodster2k(at)yahoo(dot)com> writes:
> That makes it sound as if you didn't do the same level
> of testing on *this* release, like it didn't go
> through all the tests or something.

> How about "it does not have the extensive testing
> history that other supported platforms in this release
> have."

Not bad, but it doesn't make the point that there's a lot of new
platform-specific code for Windows in there. You want to point
out not only that there's no history, but that there's new code to be
suspicious of.

regards, tom lane

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