Re: Thoughts on maintaining 7.3

Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> >Agreed.  Great Bridge was going to test our releases and only distribute
> >the good ones --- obviously they were thinking of Linux kernels and not
> >PostgreSQL.  You almost need a commercial company to do testing with
> >Linux kernels.   PostgreSQL doesn't require this, and I think Linux is
> >popular _in_ _spite_ of their buggy backported kernels (odd numbers?),
> >not because of it.
> >
> >  
> >
> The reason there is a lot of backporting in Linux kernels is that there 
> is such a lot of time (2 years or more) between major kernel releases. 
> This is not surprising given the kernel's complexity, but it is not the 
> case here, with releases every 6 months or so.

But the kernel goes through this reliable/unreliable cycle --- they
would be better off just making the old kernel more and more reliable
and focusing on the new kernel for features.

The reliable/unreliable cycle will kill your user base.

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