Re: [CORE] Restore-reliability mode

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-core <pgsql-core(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [CORE] Restore-reliability mode
Date: 2015-06-07 02:07:11
Message-ID: CA+Tgmob9WAiShOMWazROuHwxdATOvWuNo=s43NKpWAUFm8bamg@mail.gmail.com
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On Sat, Jun 6, 2015 at 12:33 PM, Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)ymail(dot)com> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> Tom, for example, has previously not wanted to even bump
>> catversion after beta1, which rules out a huge variety of
>> possible fixes and interface changes. If we want to make a
>> policy decision to change our approach, we should be up-front
>> about that.
>
> What?!? There have been catversion bumps between the REL?_?_BETA1
> tag and the REL?_?_0 tag for 8.2, 8.3, 9.0, 9.1, 9.3, and 9.4.
> (That is, it has happend on 6 of the last 8 releases.) I don't
> think we're talking about any policy change here. We try to avoid
> a catversion bump after beta if we can; we're not that reluctant to
> do so if needed.

Perhaps we're honoring this more in the breech than in the observance,
but I'm not making up what Tom has said about this:

http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/27310.1251410965@sss.pgh.pa.us
http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/19174.1299782543@sss.pgh.pa.us
http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/3413.1301154369@sss.pgh.pa.us
http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/3261.1401915832@sss.pgh.pa.us

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Robert Haas
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