On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> If it weren't for the fact that we'll be wedded forevermore to a bad
>>> choice of syntax, I might agree with you. But at this point, the
>>> alternatives we have are to fix it now, or fix it never. I don't
>>> like #2.
>
>> Or postpone the release for another month or two. There's still a few
>> other unresolved issues, too, like the problems with psql and expanded
>> mode; and the JSONB toast problems. The latter is relatively new, but
>> we don't have a proposed patch for it yet unless there's on in an
>> email I haven't read yet, and the former has been lingering for many
>> months without getting appreciably closer to a resolution.
>
> Yeah, if we do anything about JSONB we are certainly going to need another
> beta release, which means final couldn't be before end of Sept. at the
> very earliest. Still, it's always been project policy that we ship when
> it's ready, not when the calendar hits some particular point.
Absolutely.
> As for the expanded-mode changes, I thought there was consensus to
> revert that from 9.4.
Me too. In fact, I think that's been the consensus for many months,
but unless I'm mistaken it ain't done.
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