X-Original-To: pgsql-www-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 639A0D9DCB for ; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 12:02:50 -0300 (ADT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 35273-09 for ; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 15:02:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECA3FD9DAB for ; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 12:02:48 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j9AF2iib020878; Mon, 10 Oct 2005 11:02:44 -0400 (EDT) To: Michael Fuhr Cc: Greg Sabino Mullane , pgsql-www@postgresql.org Subject: Re: User survey suggestion: add CVS as a choice In-reply-to: <20051010143800.GA98669@winnie.fuhr.org> References: <20051010062456.GA93237@winnie.fuhr.org> <71e8a4bfed503880393b15820a7456bd@biglumber.com> <20051010143800.GA98669@winnie.fuhr.org> Comments: In-reply-to Michael Fuhr message dated "Mon, 10 Oct 2005 08:38:00 -0600" Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 11:02:44 -0400 Message-ID: <20877.1128956564@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.006 required=5 tests=[AWL=0.006] X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200510/31 X-Sequence-Number: 8619 Michael Fuhr writes: > On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 02:24:35PM -0000, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: >> In either case, I think the handful of people who use cvs rule it out >> as an answer, IMO. > Is CVS usage really that low? I don't know, not having seen any > activity logs. ... and we'll never find out, if we take surveys that exclude the possibility. I concur with Michael that pulling the head of a release branch might be a perfectly sane way to build a production installation. What if you need a bug fix that's in CVS but not yet appeared in any dot-release? regards, tom lane