Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > > 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 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
