Re: pgsql: configure tag'd 8.3.0 and built witih autoconf 2.59 - Mailing list pgsql-committers

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Andrew Dunstan wrote:
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> >> I don't see the branch point for REL8_3_STABLE - has that been done? I
> >> thought it would happen at the same time as we tagged the release.
> >>
> >
> > No, we will branch later.
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> >
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> Still not there.
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> We need this to be created before buildfarm members can start testing 8.3.
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> I still don't see why we wait to create the branch after tagging the
> release. There doesn't seem to be any point.

We need an 8.3 tag, but not a branch.  Is there no tag?

We don't branch because we want to apply 8.3 fixes to CVS HEAD for a
while, to avoid double-patching.

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