Re: Upcoming back-branch releases

Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@postgresql.org>

From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>
To: Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2005-08-16T02:06:11Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Robert Treat wrote:

> On Monday 15 August 2005 13:06, Tom Lane wrote:
>> The core committee has agreed that we need to do a set of releases
>> in the back branches soon --- certainly 8.0 has accumulated a critical
>> mass of changes since 8.0.3, and probably there's enough to justify
>> updates of the 7.* branches too.  We hope to get these out sometime
>> next week, after the first 8.1 beta release is done.
>>
>> So, if you've got any pending patches for the back branches, now would
>> be a good time to get 'em done up and sent in.
>>
>
> I installed 7.3.10 from source the other day, and noticed that at the end of
> initdb it told me I could register my install and check out the mailing
> lists, both a 404'd web pages. Does anyone think we should update these older
> versions with more current information?

What page did it point you to?  If nothing else, we can add a redirect to 
a more appropriate location so that ppl don't get the 404 errors ...

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