On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Justin Clift wrote:
> > Reckon it's worth asking him, to find out if he'd be interested in this?
>
>
> I wouldn't do it yet until we know if we are going to delay.
Any security audit of the code should *not* be done while the code is in
flux, and if we delay, the code would be in flux since the delay would be
to throw in a load of other code that would invalidate the audit results
...
> Oh, so it is Jan's group. Great news; wish someone would have told me
> sooner. I removed the Win32 off the open items list because, with no
> info and no one commenting on the item, it seemed dead for 7.3.
And it should be ... we can put the Win32 patches up on the ftp site for
ppl to play with if they want, but to include it at this late a date would
be irresponsible ...
> Well, PITR is a much more desired feature even than Win32; the big
> question is how long PITR will actually take, seeing as we haven't see
> any patches yet.
>
> However, we haven't seen any Win32 patches yet either, so they are in
> the same boat as far as I am concerned.
>
> We have an open items list that is pretty much ready for 7.3. The only
> open items of significance left is whether schema/DROP COLUMN stuff is
> ready in all the interfaces/apps.
We set a timeline for beta ... this time, let's stick to it ... its not
like we didn't advertise when we were going into beta ... hell, even when
the patches are presented for PITR support, who knows whether they will be
accepted, or what kinda bugs they are going to throw into the mix, or ...