Re: do we need to postpone beta4?

On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 14:11 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> 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.

If we document the bugs, then +1, if we don't -1. E.g; we let people
know where we KNOW there are warts.

JD

>
> regards, tom lane
>

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