Re: damage control mode

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> Robert Treat wrote:
>> There are three reasons I'd probably be comfortable with that; 1) the CF 
>> process means we've likely had more eyes on the code going in than in past 
>> releases.

> The reality check is that was had commit-fests for 8.4 development and
> 8.4.0 had more easily-identified bugs than most of our previous .0
> releases which didn't use commit-fests.

They weren't "easily identified", or we'd have found them before 8.4.0
release.  I think the notion that 8.4.0 was much worse than previous .0
releases is largely bogus, anyway; we've just forgotten all the bugs in
older releases ...
        regards, tom lane