Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Justin Clift wrote: > > Only two things which have the potential to be worth waiting for, from > > what I'm aware of. There may be others: > > > > - Find out from Sir Mordred if he wants to take a look at the CVS > > version of code and audit in that for a bit, Just In Case he turns > > up something that's serious and requires substantial re-work. > > Although it means he wouldn't have a bunch of "I found this existing > > exploit" type releases, we could instead offer him credit on the > > press release along the lines of "This released has been audited for > > security flaws in its code by Sir Mordred". Am pretty sure he'd > > do a very thorough job for that, as it means he'd have an official > > "product reputation" he'd need to stand by for it. > > This is interesting. He would have a month to do it.
Reckon it's worth asking him, to find out if he'd be interested in this? > > - Patches to the CVS tree which let us have a truly native windows > > version. This is of huge significance and would *very* much improve > > our growth and adoption by being in this release in comparison to > > being in the release afterwards. Not in an airy fairy way, but > > quite definitely and solidly. > > > > Of the two, Sir Mordred may or may not be willing, so that's kind of > > iffy, whereas the Windows Native port which is in beta testing isn't > > in too bad a state at all already. Have been running preliminary > > multi-user AS3AP tests on it (with OSDB) and getting a significant > > performance throughput increase in comparison to the cygwin version. > > OK, now I have to ask, where did this native Windows version come from? > I don't know anything about it, except that Jan and SRA are both working > on versions. It was kind of quietly let slip out: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-cygwin/2002-08/msg00012.php But, it's definitely up and running and functional and pretty decent. :-) > The other issue is PITR, which I have been told today will not be ready > for a September 1 beta but may be ready for an October 1 beta. Useful, but not sure it's worth delaying even *further* for. + Justin > -- > Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 > + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road > + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 -- "My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there." - Indira Gandhi ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
