> On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > 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. >> >> PostgreSQL is an open source project that plays with the big guys. Look >> at >> the Linux kernel. Imagine their file system guys thinking this way. >> Linux >> would still be Linus' hobbie. > > So, you are certain that every Linux file system bug has been patched all > the way back to say kernel version 1.0 then? Do you have any evidence of > this claim?
No one is suggesting back to version 1.0, but critical data loss bugs that are present and relvent in used prior versions are fixed. > >> >> 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. >> >> Database companies? You bet they would. > > Do you have any evidence or are you merely spouting an opinion as fact? > With Oracle and DB2, yes I have some personal experience. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])