Tom Lane wrote:
However, due consideration should also be given to
(4) Do nothing until 8.1.
At this point in the release cycle I'm not sure we should be making any significant changes for anything less than a crashing bug.
If that's not the policy, then I don't understand the dev cycle state labels used.
In the commercial world, my approach would be that if this was determined to be necessary (about which I am moderately agnostic) then we would abort the current RC stage, effectively postponing the release.
cheers
andrew
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