On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 10:38:19PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 02:52:53PM +0100, Andreas Karlsson wrote: > > On 2/12/20 12:07 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > > marcelo zen escribió: > > > > I'd rather have releases being made when the software is ready and > > > > not when the calendar year mandates it. It seems like a terrible > > > > idea. > > > > > > But we do actually release on calendar year. While it seems not > > > unreasonable that we might fail to ship in time, that would likely lead > > > to one month, two months of delay. Four months? I don't think anybody > > > even imagines such a long delay. It would be seen as utter, > > > unacceptable failure of our release team. > > > > It has actually happened once: PostgreSQL 9.5 was released in 2016-01-07. > > It was my undestanding that this prompted us to form the release team, > which has since done a great job of making sure that this does not > happen again.
FYI, the delay for 9.5 was because the compression method used for JSONB was discovered to be sub-optimal in August/September. While a relesae team might have gotten the release out before January, that isn't certain. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> https://momjian.us EnterpriseDB https://enterprisedb.com + As you are, so once was I. As I am, so you will be. + + Ancient Roman grave inscription +
