Re: Alpha4 release blockers (was Re: wrapping up this CommitFest)

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Rémi Zara <remi_zara@mac.com>, Stefan Huehner <stefan@huehner.org>
Date: 2011-03-07T20:00:24Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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  1. Further refine patch for commenting operator implementation functions.

  2. Fix citext's upgrade-from-unpackaged script to set its collation correctly.

  3. Mark operator implementation functions as such in their comments.

  4. Add KNNGIST support to contrib/btree_gist.

  5. Fix plpython breakage detected on certain Fedora machines on buildfarm.

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> At the risk of hijacking this thread to talk about the subject of this
>> thread, when are we going to cut alpha4?
>
> Well, a prerequisite for cutting an alpha is closing the commitfest,
> which at this point reduces to deciding what we are going to do with
> the plpython traceback patch.
>
> Other than that, I think we're pretty close.

AFAIK, there's nothing particularly special about that patch, other
than that the author chose to move it back from Returned with Feedback
to some other status.  I think we should just pick a time to wrap some
time in the next day or two, and it either makes it or it doesn't.

-- 
Robert Haas
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