On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Since it's going to take us two weeks to clean up the other loose ends > anyway, there's no harm in letting Simon and Heikki try to complete the > patch by then. But I'll happily lay a side bet with you about what the > situation will be two weeks from now.
If Heikki comes back and says it's not feasible, then so be it. I'll be happy because that decision was made following a proper review and some effort to get the work done. > Even if the improbable happens and there's an apparently bug-free patch > ready in two weeks, I think it would be far better project management to > have it go in at the beginning of the 8.5 cycle than at the tail end of > 8.4. This is a major patch that has very real possibilities for > breaking plain old crash recovery, even for users not using HS. The > idea of shipping it with only a minimal amount of testing should scare > the pants off you. It scares me for sure, but I'm reassured because I know and trust the guys at 2ndQuadrant who have been testing extensively, as well as other people such as Merlin and Heikki. Most patches get far less testing I'd wager. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
