Re: [CORE] Restore-reliability mode

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Geoff Winkless <pgsqladmin@geoff.dj>
Cc: Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2015-06-06T14:33:26Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 6:47 AM, Geoff Winkless <pgsqladmin@geoff.dj> wrote:
> To play devil's advocate for a moment, is there anyone who would genuinely
> be prepared to download and install an alpha release who would not already
> have downloaded one of the nightlies? I only ask because I assume that
> releasing
> an alpha is not zero-developer-cost and I don't believe
> that
>  there's a large
> number of people who would be happy to install something that's described as
> being buggy and subject to change but are put off by having to type
> "configure" and "make".

This is pretty much why Peter Eisentraut gave up on doing alphas after
the 9.1 cycle.

Admittedly, what is being proposed here is somewhat different.

-- 
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.