Re: ARC patent

On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 10:48:00AM +1100, Neil Conway wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 18:43 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > I have already
> > suggested to core that we should insist on 8.1 not requiring an initdb,
> > so as to ensure that people will migrate up to it easily from 8.0.
> 
> So is it firm policy that changes that require a catversion update
> cannot be made during the 8.1 cycle?

Hmm.  That means my shared dependency patch cannot go in, nor anything
I do about shared row locking.  Fortunately that leaves the multitable
truncate and the C "install" replacement free to be applied.

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