Re: PG 9.0 release timetable

On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> Thoughts on a few of the remaining items:
>
>> Should we revert the default output format for bytea to the old style
>> before shipping 9.0.0? - Consensus seems to be "no", thus no action is
>> required.
>
> I think we should leave that there for awhile, though I agree it's
> likely that the final decision will be "no change".
>
>> don't rename index columns behavior has already broken JDBC - As I
>> understand it, this is not a code issue, but just something that
>> driver authors need to be aware of.
>
> There had been a section on the page about information we needed to
> communicate to third-party authors.  Someone seems to have removed
> that, but that seems like where this belongs.
>
>> Crash in buildfarm for Mac OS X 10.6.3 - Consensus seems to be that
>> the machine just ran out of disk space - not sure we need to do
>> anything here.
>
> It's a bit weird though, because UpdateControlFile should always update
> in place; why would there be any risk of out of disk space?  I would
> like to find out exactly what happened, though I have no clear ideas
> how to investigate it.

Well, I think at a minimum the first two of these need to go into a
section that is not called "code": the first is just a decision we
might change our mind about, and the second is a communication issue,
not a code issue. I'd argue that the third one is probably not
something we're going to hold up the release for, either, and
therefore while it might belong on a list of known open bugs it
doesn't really belong on a list of 9.0 open items.

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