From: Chris Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>
Subject: Re: Incomprehensible dogged sort in Merge Join
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:49:10 -0400
Organization: cbbrowne Computing Inc
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stark@enterprisedb.com (Gregory Stark) writes:
> "Aleksandr Vinokurov" <aleksandr.vin@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Gregory Stark wrote:
>>>
>>> What version are you running with?
>>
>> 8.0.1, sorry for missing.
>
> There have been 12 bug-fix releases since then on the 8.0 branch including
> updating timezones to reflect the new daylight saving time rules for North
> America, various crashes, data corruption, and security bugs. There is no
> reason not to upgrade to the current latest 8.0 branch release which is
> 8.0.13.
>
> Separately, you may not want to upgrade to 8.2 now for operational
> reasons but reporting "wishlist" bugs against a version that's two
> major releases old is almost certainly going to be
> pointless. Postgres is moving ahead so fast that the chances that
> your wish is granted already in more recent releases are very high.

Further, the chances of your wishes being granted on the 8.0 branch
are somewhere between zero and none, and the changes since 8.0 are
major enough that comparing against 8.0 for the purposes of discussion
just generally isn't useful.
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