Re: RC1 on Friday?

Tom Lane wrote:
> "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> writes:
> > Tom, my understanding is that CONVERT stuff required an initdb, and was
> > also the only thing 'critical' that went in ... correct?  What impact does
> > that have?  For instance, could it cause one of the regression tests to
> > fail, or is it something that is relatively benign?
> 
> I would like to think it's a pretty safe change, but that's why we do
> betas ;-).
> 
> More seriously, we are still attacking various portability issues, and
> there is still some undone docs work.  I doubt we can make a tarball
> tomorrow that is an honest release candidate.  Maybe Monday?

OK, but we are already in month 2, week 1 on beta.  As some point, we
have to decide we are not going to do any more platform tweeking and
move on to a release.  If they really wanted their platform supported,
they should have shown up on September.

I am loosing tolerance for these last-minute changes.  We should not
hold up release to support some obscure platform.  I don't think we want
another 4 month beta!

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