Re: [HACKERS] Do we want a CVS branch now?

2002-09-30 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bruce Momjian writes: I don't think we want a branch for 7.4 yet. We still have lots of open issues and the branch will require double-patching. Merge the changes on the 7.3 branch into the 7.4 branch after 7.3 is released.

Re: [HACKERS] Do we want a CVS branch now?

2002-09-30 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote: Tom Lane wrote: Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bruce Momjian writes: I don't think we want a branch for 7.4 yet. We still have lots of open issues and the branch will require double-patching. Merge the changes on the 7.3

Re: [HACKERS] Do we want a CVS branch now?

2002-09-30 Thread Tom Lane
Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote: Yes. We need a decision now because I don't know which branch to touch. Marc, I need your feedback on these ideas. There is discussion about fixing earthdistance. Perhaps we fix that and remove the 7.3 tag

Re: [HACKERS] Do we want a CVS branch now?

2002-09-30 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Tom Lane writes: Why is that better than the other direction? It isn't. Let's just keep committing to the head and merge it into 7.3 later. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at

Re: [HACKERS] Do we want a CVS branch now?

2002-09-29 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Marc, I know we said branch after beta2 but I think we need another week or two before we can start using that branch effectively. Even if we started using it, like adding PITR, the code would drift so much that the double-patching would start to fail

Re: [HACKERS] Do we want a CVS branch now?

2002-09-29 Thread Justin Clift
Tom Lane wrote: snip Marc previously proposed releasing beta3 in about a week --- will that be a good time to open HEAD for 7.4 work, or will we need to delay still longer? (I'm not sure yet, myself.) Perhaps it's too early to be able to effectively say when a real+effective branch is likely

Re: [HACKERS] Do we want a CVS branch now?

2002-09-29 Thread Bruce Momjian
Peter Eisentraut wrote: Bruce Momjian writes: I don't think we want a branch for 7.4 yet. We still have lots of open issues and the branch will require double-patching. Merge the changes on the 7.3 branch into the 7.4 branch after 7.3 is released. Yes, there is something to be said

Re: [HACKERS] Do we want a CVS branch now?

2002-09-29 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bruce Momjian writes: I don't think we want a branch for 7.4 yet. We still have lots of open issues and the branch will require double-patching. Merge the changes on the 7.3 branch into the 7.4 branch after 7.3 is released. Why is that better

[HACKERS] Do we want a CVS branch now?

2002-09-28 Thread Bruce Momjian
[ I am starting to change subject headings to make things easier for people.] I don't think we want a branch for 7.4 yet. We still have lots of open issues and the branch will require double-patching. Marc, I know we said branch after beta2 but I think we need another week or two before we