Andrew Sullivan wrote: > On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 09:17:16AM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > > > > What if the feature does break compatibility with old features? > > What if it is "truly" a new feature? > > There is _no_ mechanism in the community right now for testing all > these new features in the so-called stable tree. > > I have lately been taking the position that Linux is only a > second-best choice for production use, precisely because of the > constant introduction of shiny new features in the supposed stable > branch. Without using something like RHAS or Debian stable, I think > one is asking for trouble. One needs to do a great deal of testing
Agreed. Great Bridge was going to test our releases and only distribute the good ones --- obviously they were thinking of Linux kernels and not PostgreSQL. You almost need a commercial company to do testing with Linux kernels. PostgreSQL doesn't require this, and I think Linux is popular _in_ _spite_ of their buggy backported kernels (odd numbers?), not because of it. -- 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 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
