Re: [CORE] postpone next week's release

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 9:46 PM, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> wrote:

> * Tom Lane (tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us) wrote:
> > Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
> > > On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 9:32 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> > >> I think there's no way that we wait more than one additional week to
> push
> > >> the fsync fix. So the problem is not with scheduling the update
> releases,
> > >> it's with whether we can also fit in a 9.5 beta release before PGCon.
> >
> > > I think 9.5 beta has to stand back. The question is what we do with the
> > > potentially two minor releases. Then we can slot in the beta whenever.
> >
> > > If we do the minor as currently planned, can we do another one the week
> > > after to deal with the multixact issues? (scheduling wise we're going
> to
> > > have to do one the week after *regardless*, the question is if we can
> make
> > > two different ones, or if we need to fold them into one)
> >
> > I suppose we could, but it doubles the amount of release gruntwork
> > involved, and it doesn't exactly make us look good to our users either.
>
> Agreed. Makes it look like we can't manage to figure out our bugs and
> put fixes for them together in sensible releases..
>

The flipside of that is that we have a bug fix that's preventing peoples
databases from starting, and we're the intentionally delaying the shipment
of it. Though i guess a mitigating fact there is that it is very easy to
manually recover from that. But it's painful if your db server restarts
awhen you're not around...

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