Re: [CORE] postpone next week's release

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>, 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: 2015-05-29T22:02:36Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 4:37 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> I'm personally kind of astonished that we're even thinking about beta
>> so soon.  I mean, we at least need to go through the stuff listed
>> here, I think:
>> https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PostgreSQL_9.5_Open_Items
>
> Well, maybe we ought to call it an alpha not a beta, but I think we ought
> to put out some kind of release that we can encourage people to test.
> What you are suggesting is that we serialize resolution of the known
> issues with discovery of new issues, and that's not an efficient use of
> time.  Especially seeing that we're approaching the summer season where
> we won't get much input at all.

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.

-- 
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company


Commits

  1. Add Valgrind buffer access instrumentation.

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