Re: Formatting Curmudgeons WAS: MMAP Buffers

On 04/21/2011 11:16 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Haas<robertmhaas@gmail.com>  writes:
>> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 2:43 AM, Peter Eisentraut<peter_e@gmx.net>  wrote:
>>> I think to really address that problem, you need to think about shorter
>>> release cycles overall, like every 6 months.  Otherwise, the current 12
>>> to 14 month horizon is just too long psychologically.
>> I agree.  I am in favor of a shorter release cycle.
> I'm not.  I don't think there is any demand among *users* (as opposed to
> developers) for more than one major PG release a year.  It's hard enough
> to get people to migrate that often.

I agree.

> Another problem is that if you halve the release interval, you either
> double the amount of work spent on maintaining back branches, or halve
> the support lifetime of a branch.  Neither of those is attractive.

I *really* *really* agree.


cheers

andrew