Received: from malur.postgresql.org ([217.196.149.56]) by arkaria.postgresql.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Z0CuP-0005tN-RH for pgsql-hackers@arkaria.postgresql.org; Wed, 03 Jun 2015 17:56:57 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=postgresql.org) by malur.postgresql.org with smtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Z0CuO-0001L4-Ko for pgsql-hackers@arkaria.postgresql.org; Wed, 03 Jun 2015 17:56:56 +0000 Received: from makus.postgresql.org ([2001:4800:1501:1::229]) by malur.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Z0CuN-0001Kv-Q8; Wed, 03 Jun 2015 17:56:55 +0000 Received: from cronos.madness.at ([2a02:16a8:dc41::10]) by makus.postgresql.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1Z0CuK-0002Ec-Ez; Wed, 03 Jun 2015 17:56:54 +0000 Received: from mastermind.kaltenbrunner.cc ([2001:470:7a2d::22]) by cronos.madness.at with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Z0CuC-0001gn-Lz; Wed, 03 Jun 2015 19:56:46 +0200 Message-ID: <556F3FD8.5000804@kaltenbrunner.cc> Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2015 19:56:40 +0200 From: Stefan Kaltenbrunner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Steele , Bruce Momjian CC: "Joshua D. Drake" , Robert Haas , Tom Lane , Andres Freund , Stephen Frost , Magnus Hagander , "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" , pgsql-core Subject: Re: [CORE] postpone next week's release References: <20150529195609.GD16602@momjian.us> <20150529195751.GN26667@tamriel.snowman.net> <27697.1432929660@sss.pgh.pa.us> <28477.1432931820@sss.pgh.pa.us> <20150529223321.GB6535@alap3.anarazel.de> <12510.1432958887@sss.pgh.pa.us> <20150530154559.GA25053@momjian.us> <556A3E26.8070902@pgmasters.net> <556A5805.5060309@commandprompt.com> <556A6908.8080600@pgmasters.net> In-Reply-To: <556A6908.8080600@pgmasters.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Pg-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-Archive: List-Help: List-ID: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Mailing-List: pgsql-hackers Precedence: bulk Sender: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org On 05/31/2015 03:51 AM, David Steele wrote: > On 5/30/15 8:38 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: >> >> On 05/30/2015 03:48 PM, David Steele wrote: >>> On 5/30/15 2:10 PM, Robert Haas wrote: >>>> What, in this release, could break things badly? RLS? Grouping sets? >>>> Heikki's WAL format changes? That last one sounds really scary to me; >>>> it's painful if not impossible to fix the WAL format in a minor >>>> release. >>> >>> I would argue Heikki's WAL stuff is a perfect case for releasing a >>> public alpha/beta soon. I'd love to test PgBackRest with an "official" >>> 9.5dev build. The PgBackRest test suite has lots of tests that run on >>> versions 8.3+ and might well shake out any bugs that are lying around. >> >> You are right. Clone git, run it nightly automated and please, please >> report anything you find. There is no reason for a tagged release for >> that. Consider it a custom, purpose built, build-test farm. > > Sure - I can write code to do that. But then why release a beta at all? FWIW: we also carry "official" snapshots on the download site ( https://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/snapshot/dev/) that you could use if you dont want git directly - those even receive some form of QA (for a snapshot to be posted it is required to pass a full buildfarm run on the buildbox). Stefan -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers