Re: [CORE] postpone next week's release

Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>

From: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
To: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, pgsql-core <pgsql-core@postgresql.org>
Date: 2015-05-30T00:07:55Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
* Andres Freund (andres@anarazel.de) wrote:
> On 2015-05-29 18:02:36 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> > Well, I think we ought to take at least a few weeks to try to do a bit
> > of code review and clean up what we can from the open items list.
> 
> Why? A large portion of the input required to go from beta towards a
> release is from actual users. To see when things break, what confuses
> them and such.
> 
> I don't see why that requires that there are no minor entries in the
> open items list - and that's what currently is on it.  Neither does it
> seem to be a problem to do code review concurrently to user beta
> testing.  We obviously can't start a beta if things crash left and
> right, but I don't think that's the situation right now?

Agreed.

	Thanks!

		Stephen

Commits

  1. Add Valgrind buffer access instrumentation.

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