On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: >> On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >>> If it weren't for the fact that we'll be wedded forevermore to a bad >>> choice of syntax, I might agree with you. But at this point, the >>> alternatives we have are to fix it now, or fix it never. I don't >>> like #2. > >> Or postpone the release for another month or two. There's still a few >> other unresolved issues, too, like the problems with psql and expanded >> mode; and the JSONB toast problems. The latter is relatively new, but >> we don't have a proposed patch for it yet unless there's on in an >> email I haven't read yet, and the former has been lingering for many >> months without getting appreciably closer to a resolution. > > Yeah, if we do anything about JSONB we are certainly going to need another > beta release, which means final couldn't be before end of Sept. at the > very earliest. Still, it's always been project policy that we ship when > it's ready, not when the calendar hits some particular point.
Absolutely. > As for the expanded-mode changes, I thought there was consensus to > revert that from 9.4. Me too. In fact, I think that's been the consensus for many months, but unless I'm mistaken it ain't done. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
