Re: Re: Proposed Windows-specific change: Enable crash dumps (like core files)

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Craig Ringer <craig(at)postnewspapers(dot)com(dot)au>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Re: Proposed Windows-specific change: Enable crash dumps (like core files)
Date: 2010-11-22 15:43:50
Message-ID: AANLkTi=DGBEP8O2=v0RUOE2Rvmk6+rNZTmRDrD6CRbPB@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 16:33, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
>> On mån, 2010-11-22 at 12:37 +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>> Do we want to backpatch it into contrib/?
>
>> It's not a bug fix or an upgrading aid, so no.
>
> I'm less than thrilled about back-patching this, too.  It seems to fly
> in the face of all our historical practice.
>
> If you drop the bit about back-patching, then I don't particularly care
> whether it goes into core or contrib for 9.1 --- whichever packaging
> makes the most sense is fine.

My suggestion in the first place was not to backpatch it - I just
wanted to get peoples opinions. I'm perfectly happy if we keep it
somewhere else for the time being - as long as we make the binaries
easily available. But that can go on the wiki for example.

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 Magnus Hagander
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