sanity of using -current?

Started by Alex Pilosovabout 25 years ago2 messages
#1Alex Pilosov
alex@pilosoft.com

I need some of features (union in views, in particular) which are only
available in 7.1-current. How insane would be to try it on production
server? Are there known bugs that could cause loss of data or loss of
updates? Or just newer features aren't polished yet?

Also, where is cvs repository? Is there a CVSup access to it?

-alex

#2Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
In reply to: Alex Pilosov (#1)
Re: sanity of using -current?

Alex Pilosov <alex@pilosoft.com> writes:

I need some of features (union in views, in particular) which are only
available in 7.1-current. How insane would be to try it on production
server? Are there known bugs that could cause loss of data or loss of
updates? Or just newer features aren't polished yet?

On a production server? I wouldn't trust it with mission-critical data,
for sure. But that's more an issue of inadequate testing than that
there are known bugs.

If you try this, be sure to make frequent backups ...

Also, where is cvs repository? Is there a CVSup access to it?

See http://www.postgresql.org/devel-corner/docs/postgres/cvs.htm

regards, tom lane