Re: Feature Freeze date for 8.4

tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us (Tom Lane) writes:
> Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
>> I'd suggest we have multiple checkpoints during the cycle. Checkpoint is
>> a "patch queue blitz" where we stop developing and reduce the queue to
>> nothing. Perhaps a two-week period where everybody helps reduce the
>> queue, not just Tom and Bruce. Every outstanding patch gets told what
>> they need to do in order to get it committed. FF is then just the last
>> in a series of checkpoints. Suggest we do a checkpoint every 2 months.
>
> I like this idea ...

Don't we need to have a background writer process to gradually flush
this data so that checkpoints aren't so massive? ;-)
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