Re: open items for 9.4

From: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>, Claudio Freire <klaussfreire(at)gmail(dot)com>, "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)justatheory(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Jan Wieck <jan(at)wi3ck(dot)info>
Subject: Re: open items for 9.4
Date: 2014-09-29 15:59:08
Message-ID: CABUevEz6X+JJ7+NMwgwAGPuK6eQAUfsNOuCBrkPxAGbOA8hiWg@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 5:53 PM, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> On 2014-09-29 11:50:19 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
>> The items I see are:
>>
>> - Remove xloginsert_slots/xloginsert_locks GUC - Not yet!!
>>
>> The text seems to indicate that there's some disagreement on this
>> point. I don't have a strong opinion on whether or not to keep the
>> GUC, but if we're going to remove it it should probably happen before
>> beta3. It's going to be impossible to remove once we've released with
>> it, I suspect.
>
> I vote for keeping it.

No real preference. But ISTM that if we're uncertain, it's probably a
good idea to keep them.

>> - TAP tests still have some pretty severe problems
>>
>> Some of these issues have been fixed; but maybe not all.
>
> If there are, they don't seem blockers to me personally.

+1. Good to have, but not release blockers.

>> - autovacuum scheduling starvation and frenzy
>>
>> This doesn't seem to be a new problem, so I don't think we should
>> consider it a stop-ship issue.
>
> +1.

+1.

>> - pg_dump fails with --if-exists and blobs
>>
>> This looks like a 9.4 regression.
>
> Alvaro, IIRC you were looking at this one?

This does seem to be the "major" release stopper, other than the json stuff.

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