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Re: Release cycle length

Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>

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From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2003-11-21T01:38:50Z
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> Yeah, I think the main issue in all this is that for real production
> sites, upgrading Postgres across major releases is *painful*.  We have
> to find a solution to that before it makes sense to speed up the
> major-release cycle.

Well, I think one of the simplest is to do a topological sort of objects 
  in pg_dump (between object classes that need it), AND regression 
testing for pg_dump :)

Chris