On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> if this is the case, can we look at applying that patch
> >> tonight, give ppl till Friday to test and put out a RC1
> >> depending on the results?
>
> Patch committed. There are still some loose ends to clean up:
>
> * I need to finish making an xlog-reset utility for contrib.
>
> * I stubbed out shmctl(IPC_STAT) in the BeOS and QNX4 emulations of
> SysV shared memory (src/backend/port/beos/shm.c,
> src/backend/port/qnx4/shm.c). This means that the new code to detect
> postmaster-dead-but-old-backends-still-running will never detect any
> problem on those platforms. Perhaps people who use those platforms
> can test and contribute real implementations?
>
> However, these shouldn't affect testing.
Great, then let's go with a RC1 on Friday and see if we can get 7.1 out in
'02 :)