On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 10:04:43AM -0700, David G Johnston wrote: > Tom Lane-2 wrote > > Robert Haas < > > > robertmhaas@ > > > > writes: > >> On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 1:18 AM, Josh Berkus < > > > josh@ > > > > wrote: > >>> While there were technical > >>> issues, 9.4 dragged a considerable amount because most people were > >>> ignoring it in favor of 9.5 development. > > > >> I think 9.4 dragged almost entirely because of one issue: the > >> compressibility of JSONB. > > > > 2. The amount of pre-release testing we get from people outside the > > hard-core development crowd seems to be continuing to decrease. > > We were fortunate that somebody found the JSONB issue before it was > > too late to do anything about it. Personally, I'm very worried that > > there are other such bugs in 9.4. But I've given up hoping that any > > more testing will happen until we put out something that calls itself > > 9.4.0, which is why I voted to release in the core discussion about it. > > The compressibility properties of a new type seem like something that should > be mandated before it is committed - it shouldn't require good fortune that
Odd are the next problem will have nothing to do with compressibility --- we can't assume old failure will repeat themselves. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + Everyone has their own god. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
