Re: [HACKERS] 6.5.1 status

Tom Lane wrote:
>
> Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > We are two weeks after the 6.5 release, and the anticipated
> > problems/patches/porting issues never really materialized.
> > I would suspect that fewer people are using PostgreSQL, but I know that
> > is not true. Seems the two months of beta really got out the bugs.
>
> I think we did pretty well.

First time for last two years -:)).

> > What do people want to do now? Does anyone want to start on 6.6? Do we
> > want to release 6.5.1? Should we relax for a few more weeks and bask in
> > the stable release?
>
> IMHO we do need to make a 6.5.1 release --- I know I have a couple of
> stupid bugs in 6.5 :-(. But it is not urgent; we could wait another
> couple of weeks and see if anything else pops up.
>
> Probably the nearer decision is when to split the tree for 6.6.
> Is anyone ready to start on new stuff for 6.6? The argument that
> we wanted to avoid double-patching is looking less compelling with
> so few patches, so I'm ready to see a tree split as soon as anyone
> has anything to commit into 6.6 only...

I have nothing yet. But I just made changes to avoid
disk writes for read-only transactions (now speed of
selects is the same as with -F) - should I put it
in 6.5.1 or wait for 6.6?

Vadim