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Re: 8.4 release planning

Ron Mayer <rm_pg@cheapcomplexdevices.com>

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From: Ron Mayer <rm_pg@cheapcomplexdevices.com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Ron Mayer <rm_pg@cheapcomplexdevices.com>, Gregory Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, "Jonah H. Harris" <jonah.harris@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, Bernd Helmle <mailings@oopsware.de>
Date: 2009-01-27T14:35:09Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 January 2009 00:42:32 Ron Mayer wrote:
>> If it were just as easy for us to pull from a
>>   "all 'pending-patches' for-commit-fest-nov that pass regression tests"
>> branch, I'd happily pull from that instead.
> 
> Considering that most patches don't come with regression tests, this would 
> accomplish very little.  And even those patches that did come with regression 
> tests (e.g., updatable views) need a design analysis much more than running 
> an automated test suite.  Ultimately, it does come down to human work.

So long as the patch passes the pre-existing regression tests, it's likely
to be stable enough to run on some of our development instances.

I certainly don't suggest that this is a substitute for reviews.  Just that
more testing of patches might happen incidentally (by people who currently
test their own software against CVS head) if all the pending patches
for a commit fest were as easy to pull as CVS head.