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