Jason Earl <jason.earl@simplot.com> writes:
> Hmm... I must have missed the huge corporation paying for in house
> testing of PostgreSQL. In the Free Software world the "beta team" is
> all of those people that need the new features so badly that they are
> willing to risk their own data and hardware testing it.
I don't have a lot of faith in huge automated test efforts. They're
great at ensuring you don't make the same mistakes you made once before,
but in my experience the nastiest bugs are the ones you haven't seen
before and would never in a million years have dreamed to test for.
Thus, the best test team is a bunch of people doing unplanned things
with the software, on a wide variety of platforms...
regards, tom lane