Re: [CORE] back-branch multixact fixes & 9.5 alpha/beta: schedule

On Mon, Jun  8, 2015 at 02:01:52PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun  8, 2015 at 12:39:24PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 12:36 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> > > > Yeah, I think if we needed this out in an emergency, we would do it, but
> > > > based on the volume of recent releases, it would be hard.  Are we seeing
> > > > user reports of failures even on the newest released versions, or are
> > > > these preventive fixes?
> > > 
> > > User reports of failures.  See the thread about upgrading from 9.4.1
> > > to 9.4.2 and having the server *fail to start*.
> > 
> > OK, are these fixed in 9.4.2 or would the same failure happen in 9.4.3?
> 
> The fixes are not yet in any released branch, hence the rush to get
> these out.

OK, now I understand.  :-O  We have known failures that are not patched,
hence the desire for a release.  

I am a little concerned we are getting into a case where community
members dedicated to this issue are asking for a release, and it is
going into the core black hole, meaning there is no visibility on what
actions core is taking to make a decision.  (This is not a criticism,
but rather an observation of how it looks from a non-core-member
perspective.)

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