Re: Just for fun: Postgres 20?

On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 10:38:19PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 02:52:53PM +0100, Andreas Karlsson wrote:
> > On 2/12/20 12:07 AM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > > marcelo zen escribió:
> > > > I'd rather have releases being made when the software is ready and
> > > > not when the calendar year mandates it. It seems like a terrible
> > > > idea.
> > >
> > > But we do actually release on calendar year. While it seems not
> > > unreasonable that we might fail to ship in time, that would likely lead
> > > to one month, two months of delay. Four months? I don't think anybody
> > > even imagines such a long delay. It would be seen as utter,
> > > unacceptable failure of our release team.
> >
> > It has actually happened once: PostgreSQL 9.5 was released in 2016-01-07.
>
> It was my undestanding that this prompted us to form the release team,
> which has since done a great job of making sure that this does not
> happen again.

FYI, the delay for 9.5 was because the compression method used for JSONB
was discovered to be sub-optimal in August/September. While a relesae
team might have gotten the release out before January, that isn't
certain.

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