Re: [CORE] postpone next week's release

Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, pgsql-core <pgsql-core@postgresql.org>
Date: 2015-05-29T19:31:46Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
* Magnus Hagander (magnus@hagander.net) wrote:
> On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 8:54 PM, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> 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.
> 
> If we plan it, we certainly *can* make a release during pgcon. If that's
> what the reasonable timing comes down to, I think getting these fixes out
> definitely has to be considered more important than the conference, so a
> few of us will just have to take a break...

I don't disagree with you about any of that, just wanted to make mention
of the timing.

	Thanks!

		Stephen

Commits

  1. Add Valgrind buffer access instrumentation.

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