Re: [CORE] postpone next week's release

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 4:01 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> It's possible that we ought to give up on a pre-conference beta.
> Certainly a whole lot of time that I'd hoped would go into reviewing
> 9.5 feature commits has instead gone into back-branch bug chasing this
> week.

I'm personally kind of astonished that we're even thinking about beta
so soon. I mean, we at least need to go through the stuff listed
here, I think:

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PostgreSQL_9.5_Open_Items

The bigger issue is: what's NOT on that list that should be? I think
we need to devote some cycles to figuring that out, and I sure haven't
had any this week.

In any case, I think the negative PR that we're going to get from not
getting this multixact stuff taken care of is going to far outweigh
any positive PR from getting 9.5beta1 out a little sooner, especially
if 9.5beta1 is bug-ridden because we gave it no time to settle.

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