On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote:
Neil Conway wrote:Bruce Momjian wrote:I think we need to actually find someone who reports a problem before stating something. I don't see how we can assume it is unstable without some feedback.
On the contrary, I don't see how we can assume it IS stable without any evidence (which is effectively what we're doing if we release 8.0.0 without any special note about how stable we expect Win32 to be: we're treating unix and win32 equally, when they clearly are not from the POV of testing and maturity).
This is enterprise software -- I think it would be wise for us to be conservative about what we promise our users.
What makes it more different from saying PITR, NT, or tablespaces might have bugs because those are new features too. What is the distinction?
they are new features, not new ports ...
Win32 is a new platform that we are supporting, and the likelihood of someone finding a bug somewhere in the tens of thousands of lines of code that is "windows specific" right now is fairly high ...
adding NT/PITR adds a feature that unless someone *really* screwed up, doesn't have the potential of finding a bug *anywhere* in our code other then where they tie into it, so its alot less of an impact overall ...
And that probably isn't worded as well as I'd like ... basically, *none* of our code is *well tested* on Windows, where is *most* of our code is well tested under Unix ... the only common "not well tested" code is the new features we add during the release ...
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