From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <199909131755.NAA23592@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Re: HISTORY for 6.5.2
In-Reply-To: <37DD3969.BEEE3FEC@wgcr.org> from Lamar Owen at "Sep 13,
	1999 01:50:33 pm"
To: Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 13:55:09 -0400 (EDT)
CC: Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>,
	"pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org>
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> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>  
> > The bad news is that those patches are too large/significant for a minor
> > release.  They could affect other platforms adversely, so we can't apply
> > them until 6.6.
> 
> Ok, mung time, then.  That means RedHat will be releasing 6.5.1 with
> RedHat 6.1, unless those patches can be munged relatively easily. Alpha
> is a big platform for RedHat.
> 

It would be very valid to apply Uncle George's patches to a 6.5.2
alpha-only release.  If we had an alpha-only release, we would apply
them too.

Our problem is that minor releases don't get the same cross-platform
testing as major releases.

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