Re: [HACKERS] LONG varsize - how to go on

> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> > Oh, got it.  You are going to implement long tuples for only the lztext
> > type at first.  Excellent idea.  Did you see someone on the general list
> > already is asking about long tuples for 7.0?  I replied on our current
> > status.
> 
>     I've  seen  several such questions these days. And I fear, if
>     I'm not able to get at least  the  required  catalog  changes
>     into  7.0,  I'd  have  to  wait  until after 7.0 freeze + CVS
>     branch before I can start at all.  That'd cost  us  too  much
>     time.
> 
>     I  know  that  I  can  deal with a bunch of deferred patches,
>     staying in sync with CURRENT and having new features only  as
>     patches.  But  that  worx only as long as I have most catalog
>     changes in CURRENT. One single concurrent catalog change  can
>     cost me days of work in the worst case otherwise.

The Feb 1 date is not set in stone.  If you would prefer March 1, we can
look at that option.

I pushed for an earlier release because I didn't want to wait for _all_
open items to be completed before a release.

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