Re: It's June 1; do you know where your release is?

On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
> Tom,
>
> Let me start this out by voting the things I think we can drop until 8.5:
>
> * gettext plurals patch needs some polishing
> -- revert patch, save for 8.5
>
> #  adjust information_schema precision and scale fields?
> -- save for 8.5
>
> # instrument the Windows shared memory reattachment problem?
> -- as much as I'd like to do this, the solution could be as bad as the
> problem; we'd need more testing time for new instrumentation.  Will have to
> deal with via testing patched versions.
>
> # tweak the ordering heuristics for parallel pg_restore?
> -- beta2 version is "good enough"; further improvements should be saved for
> 8.5.
>
> # change or at least redocument from_collapse_limit?
> -- should be doc patch only.  Robert Haas should write it.
>
> # revisit increase of default_statistics_target?
> -- No.  Still appears to be artifact of DBT2.  Can't reproduce the issue
> using pgbench, or any other test.  Still investigating.
>
>
> Other questions:
>
> #  cost_nestloop and cost_hashjoin are broken for SEMI and ANTI joins
>
>    * tgl says: I think this is mostly dealt with but it could use
> performance testing.
>
> Mark?  Jignesh?   Can you test this?

+1 to all of these. Will send extremely short doc patch tonight. I
recommend we create
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PostgreSQL_8.5_Open_Items and start
bumping things that can't be completed for 8.4.

Basically, my opinion is that if it's not a regression, it's too late
to work on it now. We should ship the release when we're confident
that the new features have had adequate testing and we've squashed all
the regressions.

...Robert