Re: [CORE] postpone next week's release

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 02:54:31PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * 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.

This brings up the issue of when we want to do 9.5 beta.  Ideas?

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