Re: [GENERAL] Postgres alpha testing docs and general test packs

2009-11-01 Thread Thom Brown
2009/11/1 Peter Eisentraut : > On ons, 2009-10-28 at 14:13 +, Thom Brown wrote: >> I'm not really asking for the answer to those questions.  I'm pointing >> out that it isn't clear (at least to me) how to determine what exactly >> has been fixed in order to test it.  This doesn't apply to every

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres alpha testing docs and general test packs

2009-11-01 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On ons, 2009-10-28 at 14:13 +, Thom Brown wrote: > > http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/release-8-5.html > > Thanks Adrian. I just wasn't looking hard enough obviously :) That > list still doesn't appear to be explicit enough though as we have > "Multiple improvements in contrib

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres alpha testing docs and general test packs

2009-10-29 Thread Guillaume Lelarge
Le jeudi 29 octobre 2009 à 02:13:51, Greg Smith a écrit : > On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Thom Brown wrote: > > All we have are a summary of changes. We can find out all the > > information if we do plenty of searching of mailing lists and comparing > > old and new documentation, but obviously this can be

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres alpha testing docs and general test packs

2009-10-28 Thread Greg Smith
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Thom Brown wrote: All we have are a summary of changes. We can find out all the information if we do plenty of searching of mailing lists and comparing old and new documentation, but obviously this can be off-putting and is duplicated for everyone who wants to participate

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres alpha testing docs and general test packs

2009-10-28 Thread Thom Brown
2009/10/28 Alvaro Herrera : > > If anyone (you?) wants to step up and produce the document you request, > it'll probably be linked to.  But please do not request the current > development team to work on it, because most of them are overloaded > already (or have other reasons not to). I can unders

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres alpha testing docs and general test packs

2009-10-28 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Wednesday 28 October 2009 3:55:02 pm Thom Brown wrote: > 2009/10/28 Adrian Klaver : > > - "Guillaume Lelarge" wrote: > >> Le mercredi 28 octobre 2009 à 15:13:06, Thom Brown a écrit : > >> > Similarly: "Fix encoding handling in binary input function of xml > >> > type." What was the problem

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres alpha testing docs and general test packs

2009-10-28 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Thom Brown escribió: > Obviously PostgreSQL has survived very well without this, but I would > expect this would help more users perform more testing. Keep in mind alphas are new. Last time around, we only released a test version when we were going to go to beta. And the alpha idea was accepted

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres alpha testing docs and general test packs

2009-10-28 Thread Thom Brown
2009/10/28 Adrian Klaver : > > > > - "Guillaume Lelarge" wrote: > >> Le mercredi 28 octobre 2009 à 15:13:06, Thom Brown a écrit : > >> > >> > Similarly: "Fix encoding handling in binary input function of xml >> > type." What was the problem before? >> > > > See attached screen shot for one po

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres alpha testing docs and general test packs

2009-10-28 Thread Adrian Klaver
- "Guillaume Lelarge" wrote: > Le mercredi 28 octobre 2009 à 23:30:01, Adrian Klaver a écrit : > > - "Guillaume Lelarge" wrote: > > > Le mercredi 28 octobre 2009 à 15:13:06, Thom Brown a écrit : > > > > Similarly: "Fix encoding handling in binary input function of > xml > > > > type."

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres alpha testing docs and general test packs

2009-10-28 Thread Guillaume Lelarge
Le mercredi 28 octobre 2009 à 23:30:01, Adrian Klaver a écrit : > - "Guillaume Lelarge" wrote: > > Le mercredi 28 octobre 2009 à 15:13:06, Thom Brown a écrit : > > > Similarly: "Fix encoding handling in binary input function of xml > > > type." What was the problem before? > > See attached s

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres alpha testing docs and general test packs

2009-10-28 Thread Guillaume Lelarge
Le mercredi 28 octobre 2009 à 15:13:06, Thom Brown a écrit : > 2009/10/28 Adrian Klaver : > >> Entirely new features are easier to deal with though. I still would, > >> however, want something like a detailed version of Josh's post which > >> breaks down where the changes have occurred. It seems

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres alpha testing docs and general test packs

2009-10-28 Thread Thom Brown
2009/10/28 Adrian Klaver : >> Entirely new features are easier to deal with though.  I still would, >> however, want something like a detailed version of Josh's post which >> breaks down where the changes have occurred.  It seems quite scattered >> and unclear at the moment. >> >> Thom > > http://d

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres alpha testing docs and general test packs

2009-10-28 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Wednesday 28 October 2009 6:46:13 am Thom Brown wrote: > 2009/10/28 Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz : > > have you seen that one: > > http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/database-soup/alpha2-is-out-and-we-need-you-t > >o-test-it-35032?rss=1 ? > > That's partly why I was asking. It mentions the areas where the > ch

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres alpha testing docs and general test packs

2009-10-28 Thread Thom Brown
2009/10/28 Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz : > have you seen that one: > http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/database-soup/alpha2-is-out-and-we-need-you-to-test-it-35032?rss=1 > ? That's partly why I was asking. It mentions the areas where the changes have occurred, but not necessarily the changes themselves. An ex

Re: [GENERAL] Postgres alpha testing docs and general test packs

2009-10-28 Thread Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz
have you seen that one: http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/database-soup/alpha2-is-out-and-we-need-you-to-test-it-35032?rss=1 ?

[GENERAL] Postgres alpha testing docs and general test packs

2009-10-28 Thread Thom Brown
Hi, Are there any test guides/plans generated for alpha releases, or are such things only distributed to other developers?  I've seen postings which mention what the new features are, and links to documentation and other postings as to what it can do, but no single page outlining the changes toget