Re: Multi-xacts and our process problem

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Multi-xacts and our process problem
Date: 2015-05-11 22:47:55
Message-ID: 20150511224755.GA385@momjian.us
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On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 03:42:26PM -0700, Joshua Drake wrote:
> >The releases themselves are not the problem, but rather the volume of
> >bugs and our slowness in getting additional people involved to remove
> >data corruption bugs more quickly and systematically. Our reputation
> >for reliability has been harmed by this inactivity.
> >
>
> What I am arguing is that the release cycle is at least a big part
> of the problem. We are trying to get so many new features that bugs
> are increasing and quality is decreasing.

Now that is an interesting observation --- are we too focused on patches
and features to realize when we need to seriously revisit an issue?

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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> http://momjian.us
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