Re: 8.4 release planning

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> > That would depend on timing then. Trying to get people to upgrade to 8.4
> is
> > going to be difficult if they're waiting on Hot Standby, which means less
> > in-the-field testing of the 8.4 code base until the 8.5 release.
>
> [ deja vu... ] Just like no one was going to bother upgrading to 8.3
> because what they wanted wouldn't be there till 8.4, and the similar
> claims we heard about 8.2 and 8.1 before that ...

I'm not trying to be an alarmist, I'm just stating what I saw when I was @
EDB. Customers, especially those with large databases or small admin teams,
would definitely wait for features before upgrading. Some people waited
specifically for HOT or features that would benefit them specifically. My
only gripe with a small window between 8.4 and 8.5 was just that I believe
people would be more likely to wait until 8.5 rather than upgrading twice in
the same year. Though, as I generally like people to be using the latest
version of PG, I'd certainly be happy to be wrong on this.

> > Similarly,
> > if we're looking at a quick 8.5 around September/October (having no
> commit
> > fests), that means it will probably be early 2011 for 8.6, which is
> fairly
> > unacceptable for the other patches currently in the queue.
>
> Right, one of the major considerations here is allowing other
> development to get started again (and not be looking at two years wait
> to see the light of day).

Agreed.

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Jonah H. Harris, Senior DBA
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