Greg > > We now have a basic patch set that works and is basically stable (not > > recommended for production servers!). We've dedicated a page at our web > > site and it hopefully has answers to most of your questions, and also > > has the patch set for download. These are for 7.4.19 - the version > > included with RHEL 4.
http://www.ExtSQL.com/postgres_notes.php > > This is kind of interesting, but targeting 7.4.19 isn't going to get you > very far toward code anyone else will use. That release is 6 years old, > it's filled with unsolvable limitations, it's basically at end of life. > The fact that it's bundled with RHEL4 and there are some legacy installs > still floating around are the only reason it's not completely gone from > everyone's radar. > > In short, if you actually care about your data, you should be running a > newer version of the database regardless of what RHEL ships. And you > should be building patches against no earlier than 8.4 if you want > something that has any hope of being accepted into mainstream development. > Eventually the patch will need to apply to the 8.5 work in progress source > code tree before it's even a candidate to merge. You can probably get > away with developing against a more stable version like 8.4.1, if you must > target something people can also deploy, but even that's not ideal and > will eventually turn into a code merge hurdle. Yes, thanks for the recommendation and I do agree. I think we got started with 7.4.19 because we run RHEL4 and had a postgresql installation in support of a Canit anti-SPAM system -- it gave us something real to test against. We were trying to decided what later release to target, looks like we'll go for 8.4 and 8.5 as staff/work permits. Any feedback on the syntax/output is welcome. Best regards! -- John ____________________________________________________________________ John Murtari Software Workshop Inc. jmurt...@thebook.com "software that fits!" (TM) (315) 944-0999 (x-211) http://www.SoftwareWorkshop.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers