Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Peter Eisentraut<pete...@gmx.net> wrote: >> ... Surely it's been tested before, else it would not be in >> the release, right?
> I would sure hope so. Testing features individually makes a whole lot > more sense to me than testing the release as a whole. Just trying a > bunch of random stuff and seeing if anything breaks is not a very > productive activity. I beg to disagree. New features have presumably been tested, in isolation, by the original developer and reviewers. The things we tend to miss are bad side-effects on corner cases and seemingly-unrelated features. So "testing as a whole" is exactly what beta is for, to my mind. > I think there is a lot of merit (as Andrew suggests) in running a > production application on a beta version of the database just to see > if anything funny happens. ... but here we seem to be coming out at the same place anyway. Getting people to put their existing apps onto a beta is very productive. We have to encourage people to do more of that while it's still beta, instead of waiting till .0 or .1 or later. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers