Re: Feature Freeze date for 8.4 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Germán Poó-Caamaño
Subject Re: Feature Freeze date for 8.4
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Msg-id 1193228778.5668.7.camel@calcifer
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In response to Re: Feature Freeze date for 8.4  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 08:33 -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> David Fetter wrote:
> 
> > I'm not picking a DSCM.  I'm saying we already have tools in place for
> > a DSCM *without* having a "flag day."  If Mercurial has a similar
> > migration/legacy support path, then by all means, let's try that out,
> > too. :)
> 
> There's at least on Mercurial repo, here:
> 
> http://www.ubiobio.cl/~gpoo/pgsql/pgsql/
> 
> I'm not sure how often it syncs.

Once an hour.

In short, the way it works is:
* Having a CVS copy through rsync.
* Any CVS change is added incrementally.  You can stop the process and the next time will continue from that point.

> For those of you outside Chile my bet is that it will be a bit slow ...

Through Internet2 should less slower than Internet, but I guess still
slow.

But it will be slow the first time you check out the repository.
Next time you only will get differences, and Mercurial is network
friendly, AFAIU.

-- 
Germán Poó Caamaño
Concepción - Chile



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