Re: do we need to postpone beta4?

Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I think we should consider postponing beta4. I count eleven
> non-documentation, 9.0-specific bug fix on REL9_0_STABLE, but there
> are currently five items on the open 9.0 issues list, at least one of
> which appears to be a new bug in 9.0, and we just got a bug report on
> pgsql-bugs from Valentine Gogichashvili complaining of what looks to
> be a crasher in the redo path for heap_xlog_update(). It seems
> unlikely at this point that we can have all of these issues fixed and
> still have time for a full buildfarm cycle before the wrap. Does it
> make sense to put out a beta with known bugs (presumably requiring
> another beta) at this point, or should we push this off a bit?

If we don't wrap a beta this week, the next possible window is several
weeks away, because various people will be on vacation. So I think we
should get the existing fixes out there, even if there are known bugs
remaining. A beta is not an RC.

regards, tom lane