Re: autovacuum causing numerous regression-test failures - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: autovacuum causing numerous regression-test failures
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Msg-id 20060828221335.GC13899@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: autovacuum causing numerous regression-test failures  (Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>)
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Neil Conway wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 15:21 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > We have more than enough problems to fix for 8.2 already.  Let's
> > try to do this early in the 8.3 cycle instead.
> 
> I agree -- I think this is exactly the sort of change that is best made
> at the beginning of a development cycle, so that there's a whole cycle's
> worth of testing to ensure it plays nicely with the rest of the system.

On the other hand, the bug Tom found on DROP OWNED a couple of weeks ago
was introduced right at the start of this development cycle, which tells
us that our testing of the development branch is not very exhaustive.
But I agree anyway.

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