Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> >Agreed. Great Bridge was going to test our releases and only distribute
> >the good ones --- obviously they were thinking of Linux kernels and not
> >PostgreSQL. You almost need a commercial company to do testing with
> >Linux kernels. PostgreSQL doesn't require this, and I think Linux is
> >popular _in_ _spite_ of their buggy backported kernels (odd numbers?),
> >not because of it.
> >
> >
> >
> The reason there is a lot of backporting in Linux kernels is that there
> is such a lot of time (2 years or more) between major kernel releases.
> This is not surprising given the kernel's complexity, but it is not the
> case here, with releases every 6 months or so.
But the kernel goes through this reliable/unreliable cycle --- they
would be better off just making the old kernel more and more reliable
and focusing on the new kernel for features.
The reliable/unreliable cycle will kill your user base.
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