Re: postpone next week's release

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 02:02:43PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I think we should postpone next week's release.  I have been hard at
> work on the multixact-related bugs that were reported in 9.4.2 and
> 9.3.7, and the subsequent bugs found by code-reading, but getting them
> all fixed by Monday doesn't seem realistic.  Such fixes should have
> careful review, and not be dashed into the tree under time pressure.
> 
> We could do the release anyway to relieve the pain caused by the
> fsync-pgdata hard-failure problem, but it seems to me that if we do
> that, we're just going to end up having to do yet another release
> almost right away.  I think it would be better to wait and do one
> release that fixes both sets of issues.

It does seem wise to make sure we have all these items fixed.  We have
PR'ed the recovery failure issue so I think we are good at this point. 
I see having to put out another multi-xact-only fix release the week
after as being a bigger negative.

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