Re: Patent issues and 8.1

Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com> writes:
> I've posted a patch to -patches that replaces ARC with LRU. The patch is 
> stable -- I'll post some code cleanup for it tomorrow, but I've yet to 
> find any bugs despite a fair bit of testing. The patch also reverts the 
> code to being quite close to 7.4, which is another reason to have some 
> confidence in its correctness.

I've already pointed out a couple reasons why I don't have any
confidence in its correctness.  This may be the right path to go for
8.0.* ... but we must NOT suppose that we can just push it out without
a full beta test cycle.
        regards, tom lane