Re: bgwriter changes

Tom Lane wrote:

>However, due consideration should also be given to
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>(4) Do nothing until 8.1.
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>At this point in the release cycle I'm not sure we should be making
>any significant changes for anything less than a crashing bug.
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If that's not the policy, then I don't understand the dev cycle state 
labels used.

In the commercial world, my approach would be that if this was 
determined to be necessary (about which I am moderately agnostic) then 
we would abort the current RC stage, effectively postponing the release.

cheers

andrew