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help / color / mirror / Atom feedFrom: Markus Wanner <markus@bluegap.ch>
To: Greg Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Ron Mayer <rm_pg@cheapcomplexdevices.com>
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Cc: Aidan Van Dyk <aidan@highrise.ca>
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Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
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Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL Developer meeting minutes up
Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2009 01:29:28 +0200
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Hi,
Greg Stark wrote:
> For what it's worth that's certainly not true. Any user maintaining a
> patched version of the source tree for production use will want to
> merge in any patches for older releases. For example anyone using the
> CONNECT BY patch with 8.3 will surely want to take any 8.3 patch
> releases.
..or port that forward to 8.4, once it's released. To me it doesn't seem
that unreasonable to develop something on top of a stable branch and to
want to migrate that to a newer stable branch or HEAD later on. Git
could certainly help to reduce bit-rotting here, in my experience.
Regards
Markus Wanner
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