On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 10:44:32AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> writes: > > Does it need a version number change? Maybe just a tag (no branch) > > is all that is required. > > I think that we do want the alpha releases to identify themselves as > such. And we want a marker in CVS as to what state the alpha > release corresponds to. Peter's label-and-undo approach seems like > a kluge;
Right. > and it doesn't scale to consider the possibility that we might want > to re-release an alpha after fixing some particularly evil bug. A > tag without a branch won't handle that either. Is this a use case? I truly hope nobody will try using a beta, let alone an alpha, in production. Do we need to provide for such a possibility? I don't recall that we've ever back-patched a beta, or even a release candidate. Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fet...@gmail.com Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
