Re: AW: Re: GiST for 7.1 !!

Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>

From: Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>, "Mikheev, Vadim" <vmikheev@SECTORBASE.COM>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-01-12T03:15:10Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Tom Lane wrote:
> Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org> writes:
> >> I'm unhappy again.  Bad enough we accepted a new feature during beta;
> >> now we're going to expect an absolutely virgin contrib module to work
> >> everywhere in order to pass regress tests?
 
> > Last I checked, two contrib modules had to be built for regression
> > testing.
 
> Sure, but they've been there awhile.  All of my concerns here are
> schedule-driven: do we really want to be wringing out a new contrib
> module, to the point where it will run everywhere, before we can
> release 7.1?

Are the benefits worth the effort?  Can the current GiST developers pull
it off in time?

If the answer to either question is not a resounding YES then we really
don't need to go down this road.  Either leave it in contrib and
regression testless (with a test script in the contrib), or make it a
feature patch.
--
Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
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