What is in the 7.2.X CVS that we would want to release?
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Tom Lane wrote:
> "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:
> >> Yeah. This is fixed in current sources, and I back-patched it into
> >> the REL7_2 branch, but current plans don't seem to include a 7.2.2
> >> release --- we'll be going straight to 7.3 beta instead.
>
> > Is it worth doing a 7.2.2 patch that will dump people's foreign keys as
> > ALTER TABLE/ADD FOREIGN KEY instead of a bunch of CREATE CONSTRAINT
> > TRIGGERs, so that they actually become constraints in 7.3?
>
> I don't think it's any easier to do that as a backpatch than as new
> functionality in 7.3 pg_dump. As far as the general issue of a 7.2.2
> release goes, I'm personally in favor of one --- there are several
> important bugfixes in the 7.2 branch right now --- but I don't do the
> gruntwork for patch releases, so I can't complain too much.
>
> > Also Tom - did you check if you can CREATE CONSTRAINT TRIGGER on a dropped
> > column - I think I neglected to look at that in the patch I submitted
> > originally.
>
> I'm pretty sure that won't get past the ATTNAME cache patches, but try
> it...
>
> regards, tom lane
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