Thoughts on 7.3b3 in production?

In article <ap89ns$2egh$1@news.hub.org>, Brett Elliott wrote:

I have heard that Postgres betas are relatively stable so is it
safe to assume that 7.3b2 could be used reliably in production?

It is a beta. If the developers believed it were production
quality, it would be released.

Definitely not recommended.

Any known issues with the beta?

If you would like to see the issues they are working on, you can
track the [HACKERS] list. It is quite interesting.

Also, what does 7.3b2 offer that 7.2.3 doesn't have? Much better
performance?

I am sure performance has improved, and it is possible that there
are particular cases where it is "much better" but I doubt that
there has been any revolutionary performance improvement overall.

Brett Elliott wrote:

I have heard that Postgres betas are relatively stable so is it
safe to assume that 7.3b2 could be used reliably in production?
Any known issues with the beta?

Also, what does 7.3b2 offer that 7.2.3 doesn't have? Much better
performance?

Betas are not for production use. If you have a bug that is only fixed
in betas, you may want to try it.

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I've been playing with the APIs (especially C) for creating functions:

That alone is a reason for me to use it ...

Evert

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