On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 18:04:42 -0500,
>
> Now, lets imagine PostgreSQL is being developed by a large company. QA
> announces it has found a bug that will cause all the users data to
> disappear if they don't run a maintenence program correctly. Vacuuming one
> or two tables is not enough, you have to vacuum all tables in all
> databases.
Except that Postgres isn't a large company and doing the work of
back patching and testing old versions will be done instead of
more important work.
> This bug would get marked as a critical error and a full scale effort
> would be made to contact previous users to upgrade or check their
> procedures.
I don't think all commercial companies would do that. I doubt that even
most of them would.
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