From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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To: | Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca> |
Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Not ready for 8.3 |
Date: | 2007-05-17 15:43:51 |
Message-ID: | 464C7837.2060909@commandprompt.com |
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Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 04:52:16PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>
>> This is what happens with the Linux kernel. They have hundreds of
>> developers getting their hands dirty during a previous period. Then
>> 2.6.20 is released; the 2.6.21 "merge window" opens, and all sort of
>> patches are flooded in.
>
> I hasten to point out that the Linux kernel has also had several
> "stable" releases with huge bugs --
/me fondly remembers kernel 2.4.
things like massive filesystem
> corruption, bizarre failure cases, and nasty compatibility problems
> with modules across versions. I am not entirely sure that the Linux
> model is the one to ape. PostgreSQL has a history with remarkably
> few of those blunders, and I'd hate to give that up.
>
> A
>
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