Re: sanity of using -current? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: sanity of using -current?
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Msg-id 5676.972572701@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to sanity of using -current?  (Alex Pilosov <alex@pilosoft.com>)
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Alex Pilosov <alex@pilosoft.com> writes:
> I need some of features (union in views, in particular) which are only
> available in 7.1-current. How insane would be to try it on production
> server? Are there known bugs that could cause loss of data or loss of
> updates? Or just newer features aren't polished yet?

On a production server?  I wouldn't trust it with mission-critical data,
for sure.  But that's more an issue of inadequate testing than that
there are known bugs.

If you try this, be sure to make frequent backups ...

> Also, where is cvs repository? Is there a CVSup access to it?

See http://www.postgresql.org/devel-corner/docs/postgres/cvs.htm
        regards, tom lane


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