From: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Cc: pgsql-core <pgsql-core@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [CORE] postpone next week's release
Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 15:31:46 -0400
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* Magnus Hagander (magnus@hagander.net) wrote:
> On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 8:54 PM, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> wrote:
>
> > * Robert Haas (robertmhaas@gmail.com) wrote:
> > > I think we should postpone next week's release. I have been hard at
> > > work on the multixact-related bugs that were reported in 9.4.2 and
> > > 9.3.7, and the subsequent bugs found by code-reading, but getting them
> > > all fixed by Monday doesn't seem realistic. Such fixes should have
> > > careful review, and not be dashed into the tree under time pressure.
> > >
> > > We could do the release anyway to relieve the pain caused by the
> > > fsync-pgdata hard-failure problem, but it seems to me that if we do
> > > that, we're just going to end up having to do yet another release
> > > almost right away. I think it would be better to wait and do one
> > > release that fixes both sets of issues.
> >
> > Agreed.
> >
> > I just caution that we appreciate PGCon coming up and that we do our
> > best to avoid running into a case where we have to push it further due
> > to everyone being at the conference.
>
> If we plan it, we certainly *can* make a release during pgcon. If that's
> what the reasonable timing comes down to, I think getting these fixes out
> definitely has to be considered more important than the conference, so a
> few of us will just have to take a break...
I don't disagree with you about any of that, just wanted to make mention
of the timing.
Thanks!
Stephen
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