Re: [HACKERS] Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: configure tag'd 8.3.0 and built witih autoconf 2.59

2008-02-06 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Marc G. Fournier wrote: Actually, branch in one to two weeks has been the status quo almost since day one ... not that I'm against branch on release, I'm only saying that we've followed this same procedure on branching since ... forever. That is incorrect. See earlier in this thread. --

Re: [HACKERS] Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: configure tag'd 8.3.0 and built witih autoconf 2.59

2008-02-05 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 08:36:47PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't really buy the double patching argument. Back patching becomes more difficult when there has been significant code drit, but we surely don't expect that much drift in the next week

Re: [HACKERS] Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: configure tag'd 8.3.0 and built witih autoconf 2.59

2008-02-05 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 10:57:16AM +, Dave Page wrote: On Feb 5, 2008 9:00 AM, Magnus Hagander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I assume this vote was taken out on -core? I don't mind -core deciding on this, not at all, but I would appreciate it if you would post the result of the vote on

Re: [HACKERS] Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: configure tag'd 8.3.0 and built witih autoconf 2.59

2008-02-05 Thread Dave Page
On Feb 5, 2008 9:00 AM, Magnus Hagander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I assume this vote was taken out on -core? I don't mind -core deciding on this, not at all, but I would appreciate it if you would post the result of the vote on -hackers. It wasn't a 'vote' in the formal sense. It was just a

Re: [HACKERS] Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: configure tag'd 8.3.0 and built witih autoconf 2.59

2008-02-05 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Tom Lane wrote: Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't really buy the double patching argument. Back patching becomes more difficult when there has been significant code drit, but we surely don't expect that much drift in the next week or two. Back patching when there has been

[HACKERS] Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: configure tag'd 8.3.0 and built witih autoconf 2.59

2008-02-05 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Gregory Stark wrote: Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane wrote: With the branch delayed they will have to say Oh, there's a new release. I wonder when they will branch so I can start building the new branch. No, I wrote that, not Tom. Your snipping went

Re: [HACKERS] Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: configure tag'd 8.3.0 and built witih autoconf 2.59

2008-02-05 Thread Dave Page
On Feb 5, 2008 11:50 AM, Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This probably wasn't on the core team's horizon - IIRC Dave is the only member of core who runs a buildfarm member. To be honest the zoo beside me didn't even cross my mind when that thread happened. I didn't pay much attention

Re: [HACKERS] Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: configure tag'd 8.3.0 and built witih autoconf 2.59

2008-02-05 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - --On Tuesday, February 05, 2008 10:00:29 +0100 Magnus Hagander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 08:36:47PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't really buy the double patching argument. Back

Re: [HACKERS] Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: configure tag'd 8.3.0 and built witih autoconf 2.59

2008-02-04 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tom Lane wrote: To avoid double-patching effort. I think we'll branch fairly shortly, like in a week or so, but right now it'd mostly just create make-work for committers. Was that a big problem last release? Well, basically this happens at core's

[HACKERS] Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: configure tag'd 8.3.0 and built witih autoconf 2.59

2008-02-04 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Tom Lane wrote: Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bruce Momjian wrote: Andrew Dunstan wrote: I don't see the branch point for REL8_3_STABLE - has that been done? I thought it would happen at the same time as we tagged the release. No, we will branch later.

Re: [HACKERS] Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: configure tag'd 8.3.0 and built witih autoconf 2.59

2008-02-04 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Tom Lane wrote: As best I recall, the immediate branch after 8.2 was the exception not the rule --- we've usually waited longer than that. 8.2, 8.1, and 8.0 were branched off the x.y.0 release tag. 7.4 was branched at rc1, 7.3 was branched at beta4, 7.2 was branched at final release, 7.1 was

Re: [HACKERS] Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: configure tag'd 8.3.0 and built witih autoconf 2.59

2008-02-04 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Peter Eisentraut wrote: Tom Lane wrote: As best I recall, the immediate branch after 8.2 was the exception not the rule --- we've usually waited longer than that. 8.2, 8.1, and 8.0 were branched off the x.y.0 release tag. 7.4 was branched at rc1, 7.3 was branched at beta4, 7.2 was

Re: [HACKERS] Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: configure tag'd 8.3.0 and built witih autoconf 2.59

2008-02-04 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Dunstan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't really buy the double patching argument. Back patching becomes more difficult when there has been significant code drit, but we surely don't expect that much drift in the next week or two. Back patching when there has been no code drift is