Upcoming back-branch releases

Started by Tom Laneover 20 years ago13 messages
#1Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us

The core committee has agreed that we need to do a set of releases
in the back branches soon --- certainly 8.0 has accumulated a critical
mass of changes since 8.0.3, and probably there's enough to justify
updates of the 7.* branches too. We hope to get these out sometime
next week, after the first 8.1 beta release is done.

So, if you've got any pending patches for the back branches, now would
be a good time to get 'em done up and sent in.

regards, tom lane

#2Robert Treat
xzilla@users.sourceforge.net
In reply to: Tom Lane (#1)
Re: Upcoming back-branch releases

On Monday 15 August 2005 13:06, Tom Lane wrote:

The core committee has agreed that we need to do a set of releases
in the back branches soon --- certainly 8.0 has accumulated a critical
mass of changes since 8.0.3, and probably there's enough to justify
updates of the 7.* branches too. We hope to get these out sometime
next week, after the first 8.1 beta release is done.

So, if you've got any pending patches for the back branches, now would
be a good time to get 'em done up and sent in.

I installed 7.3.10 from source the other day, and noticed that at the end of
initdb it told me I could register my install and check out the mailing
lists, both a 404'd web pages. Does anyone think we should update these older
versions with more current information?

--
Robert Treat
Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL

#3Andrew Dunstan
andrew@dunslane.net
In reply to: Robert Treat (#2)
Re: Upcoming back-branch releases

Robert Treat wrote:

I installed 7.3.10 from source the other day, and noticed that at the end of
initdb it told me I could register my install and check out the mailing
lists, both a 404'd web pages. Does anyone think we should update these older
versions with more current information?

And also to redirect those old URLs to the right place, if possible.
Surely writing a few Redirect lines in an apache config file isn't
beyond us.

cheers

andrew

#4Christopher Kings-Lynne
chriskl@familyhealth.com.au
In reply to: Tom Lane (#1)
Re: Upcoming back-branch releases

The core committee has agreed that we need to do a set of releases
in the back branches soon --- certainly 8.0 has accumulated a critical
mass of changes since 8.0.3, and probably there's enough to justify
updates of the 7.* branches too. We hope to get these out sometime
next week, after the first 8.1 beta release is done.

So, if you've got any pending patches for the back branches, now would
be a good time to get 'em done up and sent in.

Is there any call to backport the pg_dump object sorting improvements?

It could be considered a 'bug' I guess, and could help people upgrading
from 7.4...

Chris

#5Marc G. Fournier
scrappy@postgresql.org
In reply to: Robert Treat (#2)
Re: Upcoming back-branch releases

On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Robert Treat wrote:

On Monday 15 August 2005 13:06, Tom Lane wrote:

The core committee has agreed that we need to do a set of releases
in the back branches soon --- certainly 8.0 has accumulated a critical
mass of changes since 8.0.3, and probably there's enough to justify
updates of the 7.* branches too. We hope to get these out sometime
next week, after the first 8.1 beta release is done.

So, if you've got any pending patches for the back branches, now would
be a good time to get 'em done up and sent in.

I installed 7.3.10 from source the other day, and noticed that at the end of
initdb it told me I could register my install and check out the mailing
lists, both a 404'd web pages. Does anyone think we should update these older
versions with more current information?

What page did it point you to? If nothing else, we can add a redirect to
a more appropriate location so that ppl don't get the 404 errors ...

----
Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664

#6Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
In reply to: Christopher Kings-Lynne (#4)
Re: Upcoming back-branch releases

Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:

Is there any call to backport the pg_dump object sorting improvements?

My recollection is that that change was way too invasive to be
reasonable for a back-port. The solutions used for circular reference
situations (various ALTER commands) probably don't exist very far back
anyway.

It could be considered a 'bug' I guess, and could help people upgrading
from 7.4...

They could just use the 8.0 pg_dump for that.

regards, tom lane

#7Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
In reply to: Marc G. Fournier (#5)
Re: Upcoming back-branch releases

"Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org> writes:

On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Robert Treat wrote:

I installed 7.3.10 from source the other day, and noticed that at the end of
initdb it told me I could register my install and check out the mailing
lists, both a 404'd web pages. Does anyone think we should update these older
versions with more current information?

What page did it point you to? If nothing else, we can add a redirect to
a more appropriate location so that ppl don't get the 404 errors ...

The 7.3 version of register.txt is attached. We could update it, or get
rid of it completely as later branches did ...

regards, tom lane

PostgreSQL has a web site at http://www.postgresql.org/ which carries details
on the latest release, upcoming features, and other information to make your
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Please check the following URL for a listing of the current user-support
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All of the mailing lists are currently archived and viewable at:

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Thank you for choosing PostgreSQL, the most advanced open source database
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#8Christopher Kings-Lynne
chriskl@familyhealth.com.au
In reply to: Tom Lane (#6)
Re: Upcoming back-branch releases

My recollection is that that change was way too invasive to be
reasonable for a back-port. The solutions used for circular reference
situations (various ALTER commands) probably don't exist very far back
anyway.

Nah, all you need to do is take the 8.0 pg_dump, hard-code that
--use-set-session-authorization is always enabled, and remove use of
pg_get_serial_sequence IIRC...

It could be considered a 'bug' I guess, and could help people upgrading
from 7.4...

They could just use the 8.0 pg_dump for that.

Yep. But who knows to do that? :)

My 2c : we have an archive of statically compiled pg_dump binaries on
postgresql.org.

Cheers,

Chris

#9Marc G. Fournier
scrappy@postgresql.org
In reply to: Tom Lane (#7)
Re: Upcoming back-branch releases

I'd vote to get rid of it ... the concept of 'registering' might throw
some for a loop ...

On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Tom Lane wrote:

"Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org> writes:

On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Robert Treat wrote:

I installed 7.3.10 from source the other day, and noticed that at the end of
initdb it told me I could register my install and check out the mailing
lists, both a 404'd web pages. Does anyone think we should update these older
versions with more current information?

What page did it point you to? If nothing else, we can add a redirect to
a more appropriate location so that ppl don't get the 404 errors ...

The 7.3 version of register.txt is attached. We could update it, or get
rid of it completely as later branches did ...

regards, tom lane

PostgreSQL has a web site at http://www.postgresql.org/ which carries details
on the latest release, upcoming features, and other information to make your
work or play with PostgreSQL more productive.

Please check the following URL for a listing of the current user-support
mailing lists:

http://www.ca.postgresql.org/users-lounge/index.html#maillist

All of the mailing lists are currently archived and viewable at:

http://archives.postgresql.org/

And, so that we have an idea of who is using what, please connect to the
following registration URL:

http://www.pgsql.com/register/submit.php

Thank you for choosing PostgreSQL, the most advanced open source database
engine.

----
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Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664

#10Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
In reply to: Marc G. Fournier (#9)
Re: Upcoming back-branch releases

"Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org> writes:

I'd vote to get rid of it ... the concept of 'registering' might throw
some for a loop ...

Works for me; will do that in the 7.3 and 7.2 branches.

It'd still be a good idea to put in some redirects to make those old
URLs do something again.

regards, tom lane

#11Marc G. Fournier
scrappy@postgresql.org
In reply to: Tom Lane (#10)
Re: Upcoming back-branch releases

On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Tom Lane wrote:

"Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org> writes:

I'd vote to get rid of it ... the concept of 'registering' might throw
some for a loop ...

Works for me; will do that in the 7.3 and 7.2 branches.

It'd still be a good idea to put in some redirects to make those old
URLs do something again.

Now redirected to http://www.postgresql.org ... if someone has a better
place to redirect it to, please feel free to suggest it ...

----
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Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664

#12Marko Kreen
marko@l-t.ee
In reply to: Tom Lane (#1)
Re: Upcoming back-branch releases

On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 01:06:15PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:

So, if you've got any pending patches for the back branches, now would
be a good time to get 'em done up and sent in.

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2005-07/msg00291.php

--
marko

#13Andrew Dunstan
andrew@dunslane.net
In reply to: Tom Lane (#1)
Re: Upcoming back-branch releases

Tom Lane wrote:

The core committee has agreed that we need to do a set of releases
in the back branches soon --- certainly 8.0 has accumulated a critical
mass of changes since 8.0.3, and probably there's enough to justify
updates of the 7.* branches too. We hope to get these out sometime
next week, after the first 8.1 beta release is done.

So, if you've got any pending patches for the back branches, now would
be a good time to get 'em done up and sent in.

I am going to look urgently at fixing the "no IPv6 on Windows" bug that
came up yesterday.

cheers

andrew