On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 18:04:42 -0500, > > Now, lets imagine PostgreSQL is being developed by a large company. QA > announces it has found a bug that will cause all the users data to > disappear if they don't run a maintenence program correctly. Vacuuming one > or two tables is not enough, you have to vacuum all tables in all > databases.
Except that Postgres isn't a large company and doing the work of back patching and testing old versions will be done instead of more important work. > This bug would get marked as a critical error and a full scale effort > would be made to contact previous users to upgrade or check their > procedures. I don't think all commercial companies would do that. I doubt that even most of them would. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq