Re: [HACKERS] Win32 release warning
Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.win32,gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.general |
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Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Tom Lane wrote: > >> Rob Butler <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> That makes it sound as if you didn't do the same level >>> of testing on *this* release, like it didn't go >>> through all the tests or something. >> >> >>> How about "it does not have the extensive testing >>> history that other supported platforms in this release >>> have." >> >> >> Not bad, but it doesn't make the point that there's a lot of new >> platform-specific code for Windows in there. You want to point >> out not only that there's no history, but that there's new code to be >> suspicious of. > > > "Altho tested throughout our release cycle, the Windows port does not > have the benefit of the years of testing that has gone into the Unix > platforms, and, as such, should be treated with the same level of > caution as you would a new product" > > Not bad. I think I'd say " ... does not have the benefit of years of use in production environments that PostgreSQL has on Unix platforms ..." - I agree with Merlin that we shouldn't imply it hasn't been extensively tested. cheers andrew ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [email protected]