Re: Nearing beta?

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > We are nearing April 15 --- are we nearing a time when we can close 9.3
> > development and start focusing on the beta?
>
> It's time to start maintaining the list of open items for 9.3,
> which would help us figure out if we're ready for beta.
>
> The issue with event triggers causing catalog access during START
> TRANSACTION is clearly a "must fix before beta" item.  I'm afraid
> that bug #8049 is going to require some nontrivial planner changes
> (more about that in a bit), which means I'd like to get that into
> the beta cycle too.  What else are people aware of?
>
> Also, I'd say we need at least draft-quality release notes before
> we can start beta, else beta testers won't know what to test.

Maybe we should release an alpha with current git + draft release notes?

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