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  1. Status report on 8.3 release

    Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> — 2007-11-29T16:26:53Z

    I wanted to give everyone an overview of where we are for 8.3.  We have
addressed almost every major issue for 8.3 but we are getting a steady
stream of minor cleanups.  These cleanups are vital to keep the quality
of Postgres at a high level.  It allows us to make major changes in
every release but continue to produce a very reliable database system. 
8.3 is going to be a watershed release, like 8.0, so it is not
surprising we have cleaning up to do.  Please keep up that activity.

I expect these cleanups to continue for at least another week or two. 
Once they slow we will schedule RC1.  Of course, we are getting near
Christmas, so that might affect the final release schedule as well. 
Based on everything above, it is likely that 8.3 final will not be until
the first week of January.

I know everyone wanted this to be a short release schedule but the
feature set just kept growing, so while we have the normal year-to-year
release schedule, we do have a blockbuster release that we can all be
proud of.

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  2. Re: Status report on 8.3 release

    Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com> — 2007-11-29T22:01:11Z

    On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 11:26 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I expect these cleanups to continue for at least another week or two. 
> Once they slow we will schedule RC1.

So are there no plans for an additional beta? Given the recent addition
of changes like

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2007-11/msg00552.php
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2007-11/msg00532.php

I wonder if another beta before RC1 would be warranted.

-Neil

  3. Re: Status report on 8.3 release

    Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> — 2007-11-29T22:08:07Z

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On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:01:11 -0800
Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 11:26 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > I expect these cleanups to continue for at least another week or
> > two. Once they slow we will schedule RC1.
> 
> So are there no plans for an additional beta? Given the recent
> addition of changes like
> 
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2007-11/msg00552.php
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2007-11/msg00532.php
> 
> I wonder if another beta before RC1 would be warranted.

I think the email is not quite clear :). There is a Beta 4 coming, the
problem is packagers aren't really available this week so if it comes
it will be next week.

At least that is last I heard.

Joshua D. Drake

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  4. Re: Status report on 8.3 release

    Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> — 2007-11-29T22:21:09Z

    Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com> writes:
> So are there no plans for an additional beta?

Yes, there are, but not till we do something about
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-11/msg01302.php

			regards, tom lane

  5. Re: Status report on 8.3 release

    Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum <adsmail@wars-nicht.de> — 2007-11-30T00:10:35Z

    Hello,

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:21:09 -0500 Tom Lane wrote:

> Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com> writes:
> > So are there no plans for an additional beta?
> 
> Yes, there are, but not till we do something about
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-11/msg01302.php

i would also like to test another Beta, if we do something about this
problem:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-11/msg00960.php


Kind regards

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				Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum
German PostgreSQL User Group

  6. Re: Status report on 8.3 release

    Brendan Jurd <direvus@gmail.com> — 2007-11-30T00:26:35Z

    On Nov 30, 2007 11:10 AM, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum <adsmail@wars-nicht.de> wrote:
> i would also like to test another Beta, if we do something about this
> problem:
>
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-11/msg00960.php

Hi Andreas,

Tom's already committed the quote_literal(anyelement) function.

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2007-11/msg00530.php

Cheers
BJ

  7. Re: Status report on 8.3 release

    Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum <adsmail@wars-nicht.de> — 2007-11-30T00:33:56Z

    On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:26:35 +1100 Brendan Jurd wrote:

> On Nov 30, 2007 11:10 AM, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum <adsmail@wars-nicht.de> wrote:
> > i would also like to test another Beta, if we do something about this
> > problem:
> >
> > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-11/msg00960.php
> 
> Hi Andreas,
> 
> Tom's already committed the quote_literal(anyelement) function.
> 
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2007-11/msg00530.php

Ups, i've overseen this one. Forget my posting and i will keep testing
the next beta ;-)


Kind regards

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				Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum
German PostgreSQL User Group

  8. Re: Status report on 8.3 release

    Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com> — 2007-11-30T00:35:48Z

    "Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum" <adsmail@wars-nicht.de> writes:

> i would also like to test another Beta, if we do something about this
> problem:
>
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2007-11/msg00960.php

That's already done, it would be in the next beta. You could check out a copy
from CVS HEAD if you want to test it now.

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  9. Re: Status report on 8.3 releaset

    Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> — 2007-11-30T01:09:15Z

    Joshua D. Drake wrote:
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> On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:01:11 -0800
> Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 11:26 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > I expect these cleanups to continue for at least another week or
> > > two. Once they slow we will schedule RC1.
> > 
> > So are there no plans for an additional beta? Given the recent
> > addition of changes like
> > 
> > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2007-11/msg00552.php
> > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-committers/2007-11/msg00532.php
> > 
> > I wonder if another beta before RC1 would be warranted.
> 
> I think the email is not quite clear :). There is a Beta 4 coming, the
> problem is packagers aren't really available this week so if it comes
> it will be next week.

Yes, there will be another beta before RC1.

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