Re: Call for 7.5 feature completion

We could perhaps do something similar to the Apache 1.3 win platform 
notes, where they (still) say *something* like :

"Apache on windows is not as stable as on unix... but is being actively 
improved all the time"

This is a bit more positive than "it's dangerous!".

As for people not reading the release notes - we could display the 
platform note (or an href to it) prominently on the download page 
("they" may still not read that...but it has become a matter of choice 
at that point...).

regards

Mark


David Garamond wrote:

> Robert Treat wrote:
>
>> Given that the cygwin version is currently labeled as not ready for
>> production I would say you are right. The truth is that many will never
>> declare win32 good for production simply because of the OS it runs on,
>> but we still want to make it as solid as possible.
>
>
> People _do_ use postgresql+cygwin in production environments though 
> (see the pgsql-cygwin archive).
>
> And I suspect people _will_ use 7.5 for win32 in production, despite 
> the release notes and the website clearly saying it's not production 
> ready. Why?
>
> 1) The version number is "7.5" and many people will presume the ports 
> are more or less equal in quality/maturity since they have the same 
> version number;
>
> 2) People don't read release notes. See the various reviews on the 
> recently released Fedora Core 2, complaining about how it doesn't 
> support MP3 or DVD playback, despite the [legal] issues having been 
> known and documented since Red Hat 8. Strangely enough, these people 
> (who don't read release notes) _do_ write public reviews. They will 
> badmouth PostgreSQL, saying it's unstable, crashes a lot, MySQL being 
> much much more rock solid, etc etc.
>
> I suggest we label the win32 port as "7.5 ALPHA" or "7.5 DANGEROUS" :-)
>