On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Tom Lane wrote:
> What's really being debated here is how we can have adequate confidence
> in a change that is admittedly larger than we like to back-patch. It's
> not an unprecedented thing mind you; we have back-patched some fairly
> large bug fixes in the past. But it's a bit galling to be taking any
> such risk for purely legal rather than technical reasons.
How hard would it be to do as several have suggested already ... abstract
out the ARC/LRU stuff into an API? Then, we wouldn't have to remove ARC,
per se, only shift it? Wouldn't that be a smaller patch overall? Then,
for our non-US users, they could continue to use ARC even after the patent
(myself included), while a plug-in replacement could be available for US
users?
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