Re: Release cycle length

From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Release cycle length
Date: 2003-11-21 01:38:50
Message-ID: 3FBD6CAA.7040500@familyhealth.com.au
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> Yeah, I think the main issue in all this is that for real production
> sites, upgrading Postgres across major releases is *painful*. We have
> to find a solution to that before it makes sense to speed up the
> major-release cycle.

Well, I think one of the simplest is to do a topological sort of objects
in pg_dump (between object classes that need it), AND regression
testing for pg_dump :)

Chris

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