On 05/31/2015 03:51 AM, David Steele wrote: > On 5/30/15 8:38 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: >> >> On 05/30/2015 03:48 PM, David Steele wrote: >>> On 5/30/15 2:10 PM, Robert Haas wrote: >>>> What, in this release, could break things badly? RLS? Grouping sets? >>>> Heikki's WAL format changes? That last one sounds really scary to me; >>>> it's painful if not impossible to fix the WAL format in a minor >>>> release. >>> >>> I would argue Heikki's WAL stuff is a perfect case for releasing a >>> public alpha/beta soon. I'd love to test PgBackRest with an "official" >>> 9.5dev build. The PgBackRest test suite has lots of tests that run on >>> versions 8.3+ and might well shake out any bugs that are lying around. >> >> You are right. Clone git, run it nightly automated and please, please >> report anything you find. There is no reason for a tagged release for >> that. Consider it a custom, purpose built, build-test farm. > > Sure - I can write code to do that. But then why release a beta at all?
FWIW: we also carry "official" snapshots on the download site ( https://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/snapshot/dev/) that you could use if you dont want git directly - those even receive some form of QA (for a snapshot to be posted it is required to pass a full buildfarm run on the buildbox). Stefan -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
