Re: postpone next week's release - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Stephen Frost
Subject Re: postpone next week's release
Date
Msg-id 20150529185431.GG26667@tamriel.snowman.net
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In response to postpone next week's release  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: [CORE] postpone next week's release  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Re: [CORE] postpone next week's release  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
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* 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.
Thanks!
    Stephen

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