From: | Dave Page <dpage(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
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To: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
Cc: | PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Windows support - PostgreSQL 8.0 and 8.1 |
Date: | 2007-04-27 11:57:30 |
Message-ID: | 4631E52A.4060703@postgresql.org |
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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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>
> Dave Page wrote:
>>
>> * The stats collector bug which prevented stats being collected
>> reliably, thus causing all the expected knock on effects (including
>> near-total failure of autovacuum). The 8.2 fix for this was dependent
>> on the redesign of the collector to remove the separate stats buffering
>> process.
>>
>> * Semaphore issues, fixed by the native implementation in 8.2.
>>
>>
>>
> I think these two justify declaring the Windows port at EOL prior to
> 8.2. The others probably not so much. (Who cares if pg_regress is not a
> C program? Who besides developers uses it?)
Yeah, a couple of those items were ones that might make backporting
fixes more difficult rather than issues in their own right. That one's
unlikely to be an issue though, I agree.
> I hope this will be a one-off exercise, though. In general we should
> declare releases to be at EOL, not ports.
Yes, that is absolutely the intention.
Regards, Dave
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