Re: 9.5 release scheduling (was Re: logical column ordering)

On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 10:04:43AM -0700, David G Johnston wrote:
> Tom Lane-2 wrote
> > Robert Haas <
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> > robertmhaas@
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> > > writes:
> >> On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 1:18 AM, Josh Berkus <
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> > josh@
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> > > wrote:
> >>> While there were technical
> >>> issues, 9.4 dragged a considerable amount because most people were
> >>> ignoring it in favor of 9.5 development.
> >
> >> I think 9.4 dragged almost entirely because of one issue: the
> >> compressibility of JSONB.
> >
> > 2. The amount of pre-release testing we get from people outside the
> > hard-core development crowd seems to be continuing to decrease.
> > We were fortunate that somebody found the JSONB issue before it was
> > too late to do anything about it. Personally, I'm very worried that
> > there are other such bugs in 9.4. But I've given up hoping that any
> > more testing will happen until we put out something that calls itself
> > 9.4.0, which is why I voted to release in the core discussion about it.
>
> The compressibility properties of a new type seem like something that should
> be mandated before it is committed - it shouldn't require good fortune that

Odd are the next problem will have nothing to do with compressibility
--- we can't assume old failure will repeat themselves.

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