On Thu, 11 May 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> Yesterday's upgrade to 7.0 went almost completely smoothly except
> somehow some date types weren't being parsed by the plpgsql
> interpreter.
> 
> Bruce saved my behind by quickly offering a patch. (Thanks!)
> 
> This was really great, the only problem is that I know several
> large features are scheduled for 7.1 that may for brief periods of
> time have postgresql acting unstable during the development cycle.
> 
> Unfortunatly I may have to cvsup to fix some issue that happens
> with 7.0 but I don't want to play/risk the new features, just get
> the bugfixes.
> 
> I would really like to see a 7.0 Branch, akin to the 6.5.3-patches
> branch which would give users the option to only cvsup bugfixes
> rather than code that incorperates emerging new features which may
> upset stability.

This will happen at the same time as v7.0.1 is released ... up until then,
there will be no new features added to the source tree ... our sort of
'quiet time' to see how things work out, watch for bugs, etc ...

> On a somewhat related note, is there a way to have the postgresql
> cvs commit messages mailed to me?  I can't seem to find a list.

pgsql-committers@postgresql.org



Thu, 11 May 2000 13:27:32 -0300 (ADT)
The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
Re: Some CVS stuff, A 7.0-stable branch? and a mailing list?