Re: Releasing in September

On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 05:56:27PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 01:59:59PM -0800, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> >> I think that we've learned some lessons from the problems with 9.3. I
> >> don't think that one of those lessons was "take more time to release".
> > -------------------------
> >> There is reason to doubt that that would have changed matters one bit
> >> with 9.3. It might be a good idea to formally state what those lessons
> >> are.
>
> > I do think that is effectively a lesson we learned, wrong or not.
>
> I think a lesson we *should* have learned by now is that we need to put
> more emphasis on testing. That includes not only spending more time on
> it, but investing more in testing infrastructure. The buildfarm has been
> a huge advance in our ability to find/fix portability issues quickly, but
> it does nothing to, say, assess crash safety. Or identify performance
> regressions.

The two sobering blockers I can remember were multi-xact (9.3) and JSONB
compression (9.4).

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