On Sunday 20 February 2005 00:30, Tom Lane wrote: > Mark Kirkwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > To be fair to Mark, there does seem to be an increasing number of > > reports of this issue. In spite of the in-the-works fix for 8.1, it > > would be a pity to see customers losing data from xid wrap-around. > > The question is whether we are willing to back-patch a fairly large > amount of not-very-well-tested code into 8.0. See > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-patches/2005-02/msg00123.php > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2005-02/msg00127.php > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2005-02/msg00131.php > > I personally don't think it's worth the risk. The code works well > enough to commit to development tip, but it's fundamentally alpha > quality code. >
I would lean away from putting it in 8.0, however aren't we planning an 8.0.x release that will have a beta and/or rc testing for arc related changes? If so I might be open to putting it in that release (though the bits requiring initdb are a killer). -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match