Re: Back-branch update releases scheduled

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 03:28:39PM -0800, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> We're really rather overdue for updates of the pre-9.4 back branches,
>>> and 9.4 itself has probably baked for long enough to justify a 9.4.1.
>>> Accordingly, the core committee has agreed to wrap releases the week
>>> after next; that's wrap Mon Feb 2 for public announcement Thu Feb 5.

>> I hope that gives us enough time to fix the issue in question in the
>> 9.4.0 problem report thread "hung backends stuck in spinlock heavy
>> endless loop".

> The JSON/JSONB escape thing would be nice to fix too, before the
> existing behavior becomes too baked into applications.

So let's get on with it.  We're not holding up releases for patches
that may or may not materialize.
        regards, tom lane