Re: [CORE] postpone next week's release

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 8:02 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I think we should postpone next week's release. I have been hard at
> work on the multixact-related bugs that were reported in 9.4.2 and
> 9.3.7, and the subsequent bugs found by code-reading, but getting them
> all fixed by Monday doesn't seem realistic. Such fixes should have
> careful review, and not be dashed into the tree under time pressure.
>
> We could do the release anyway to relieve the pain caused by the
> fsync-pgdata hard-failure problem, but it seems to me that if we do
> that, we're just going to end up having to do yet another release
> almost right away. I think it would be better to wait and do one
> release that fixes both sets of issues.
>
> Thoughts?
>

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.

Do you have any feeling of how likely people are to actually hit the
multixact one? I've followed some of that impressive debugging you guys
did, and I know it's a pretty critical bug if you hit it, but how
wide-spread will it be?

I guess one option we could do is encourage packagers to push updated
packages (-2 versions) basically. But if we do that, perhaps we might as
well release anyway?

AIUI, the permission thing won't actually be very likely to affect Windows
users. And Windows packages are the ones that take by far the most work to
make. Perhaps we should consider skipping making packages of that version
on Windows, and then plan to push yet another minor one or two weeks later,
that goes out on all platforms?

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