On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 9:46 PM, Stephen Frost <sfr...@snowman.net> wrote:
> * Tom Lane (t...@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote: > > Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> writes: > > > On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 9:32 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.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... -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/
