From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
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Subject: Re: [CORE] postpone next week's release
Date: Sat, 30 May 2015 09:11:40 -0400
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On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 08:56:53AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 12:08:07AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > desperately in need of testing. The custom-plan code is desperately
> > in need of fixing and testing. The multixact code is desperately
> > in need of testing. The open-items list has several other problems
> > besides those. All of those problems are independent. If we insist
> > on tackling them serially rather than in parallel, 9.5 might not come
> > out till 2017.
>
> 2017? Really? Is there any need for that hyperbole?
>
> Frankly, based on how I feel now, I would have no problem doing 9.5 in
> 2016 and saying we have a lot of retooling to do. We could say we have
> gotten too far out ahead of ourselves and we need to regroup and
> restructure the code.
Actually, barrelling ahead to get releases out is how we got into this
mess in the first place. I would vote we put the 9.5 release on hold
while we do an honest assessment of where we are. In hindsight, we
should have known to do this even before 9.4 was released.
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