Re: [CORE] postpone next week's release

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-core <pgsql-core(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [CORE] postpone next week's release
Date: 2015-06-01 13:38:40
Message-ID: 16156.1433165920@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
> On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 8:02 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> I think we should postpone next week's release.

> I'm a bit split on this.

> We *definitely* don't want to release the multixact fix without it being
> carefully reviewed, that's the part I'm not split about :) And I fully
> appreciate we can't have that done by monday.

> However, the file-permission thing seems to hit quite a few people (have we
> ever had this many bug reports after a minor release), which means wed
> really want to get that out quickly.

After dithering over the weekend, the majority view on -core seems to be
that we should go ahead with making a release today for the fsync issue.
We'll plan another release next week, or whenever the dust seems to have
settled on the multixact issue(s).

regards, tom lane

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