Andres Freund <[email protected]> writes:
> I think it'd be a good plan to adopt the beta on master.
> We already have parts of it backpacked, there have been things we couldn't
> easily do because of bugs in 2.69. There aren't that many changes to
> configure it total, and particularly not in the back branches. So I think
> it'd be ok overhead wise.
Yeah. Because we'd want to rip out those hacks, it's not quite as simple
as "regenerate configure with this other autoconf version"; somebody will
have to do some preliminary investigation and produce a patch for the
autoconf input files. Peter, were you intending to do that?
regards, tom lane