On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 08:02:03PM -0700, Ron Mayer wrote: > Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > I don't know of anyone who is likely to want to try out alphas in their > > normal development environments. The client I approached was > > specifically prepared to test beta releases that way. > > Perhaps end-users won't, but I think companies who develop software that > works on top of postgres will. Perhaps to make sure their existing software > continues to work; or perhaps to get a head start working with new features. > I test against CVS-head occasionally.
I've been trying to help a client take up new versions of postgresql more quickly as the performance or feature content is often very valuable to them. Accordingly, I have encouraged them to run periodic samples of the nightly snapshots on at least one development instance, and to run the betas in the test environment. The goal is to be confident on the day of the postgresql release that we have tested enough and fixed any incompatibilities so that, if they so choose, they could migrate production to the new release immediately. This way they get several months extra benefit from improvements to postgresql. -dg -- David Gould da...@sonic.net 510 536 1443 510 282 0869 If simplicity worked, the world would be overrun with insects. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers