Re: postpone next week's release

Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, pgsql-core <pgsql-core@postgresql.org>
Date: 2015-05-29T18:54:31Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
* Robert Haas (robertmhaas@gmail.com) wrote:
> I think we should postpone next week's release.  I have been hard at
> work on the multixact-related bugs that were reported in 9.4.2 and
> 9.3.7, and the subsequent bugs found by code-reading, but getting them
> all fixed by Monday doesn't seem realistic.  Such fixes should have
> careful review, and not be dashed into the tree under time pressure.
> 
> We could do the release anyway to relieve the pain caused by the
> fsync-pgdata hard-failure problem, but it seems to me that if we do
> that, we're just going to end up having to do yet another release
> almost right away.  I think it would be better to wait and do one
> release that fixes both sets of issues.

Agreed.

I just caution that we appreciate PGCon coming up and that we do our
best to avoid running into a case where we have to push it further due
to everyone being at the conference.

	Thanks!

		Stephen

Commits

  1. Add Valgrind buffer access instrumentation.

  2. Fix wrong merge resolution making pg_receivexlog fail in 9.2.