Re: Feature freeze

2025-04-10 Thread Euler Taveira
On Tue, Apr 8, 2025, at 2:15 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > There is nothing whatsoever that is helpful about referring to AoE, > and if anything, you just made it even clearer that nobody knows > what that means. Agreed. Maybe that is a good idea to put a countdown timer [1] in the website ([2] or a new p

Re: Feature freeze

2025-04-09 Thread Nico Williams
On Tue, Apr 08, 2025 at 11:24:39AM -0500, Nathan Bossart wrote: > I always forget if AoE is UTC+12 or UTC-12. [...] One isn't supposed to think "is the freeze on everywhere", just "is the freeze on for me" and "is the freeze on for this particular contribution (check the date header)". Nico --

Re: Feature freeze

2025-04-09 Thread John Naylor
On Tue, Apr 8, 2025 at 10:13 PM Daniel Gustafsson wrote: > > I find both of the above needlessly confusing when we instead could use UTC > which is a more universally understood concept. Indeed, that's what the "U" stands for, after all. :-) -- John Naylor Amazon Web Services

Re: Feature freeze

2025-04-08 Thread David Rowley
On Wed, 9 Apr 2025 at 03:54, Bruce Momjian wrote: > We did have this discussion when AoE was chosen for PG 18 and the idea > was that as long as it is before April 18 midnight wherever you are, it > is not feature freeze yet. I think it maybe once made sense for the moment to stop accepting new p

Re: Feature freeze

2025-04-08 Thread Andrew Dunstan
On 2025-04-08 Tu 11:45 AM, Peter Geoghegan wrote: On Tue, Apr 8, 2025 at 11:20 AM Nathan Bossart wrote: +1 for UTC. +1, I think that AoE is needlessly obscure +1 cheers andrew -- Andrew Dunstan EDB: https://www.enterprisedb.com

Re: Feature freeze

2025-04-08 Thread Nathan Bossart
On Tue, Apr 08, 2025 at 05:13:15PM +0200, Daniel Gustafsson wrote: >> On 8 Apr 2025, at 16:59, Bruce Momjian wrote: >> Frankly, I think the name "anywhere on Earth" is confusing, since it >> really is "everywhere on Earth": > > I find both of the above needlessly confusing when we instead could u

Re: Feature freeze

2025-04-08 Thread Tom Lane
Ashutosh Bapat writes: > Any timezone based deadline might be seen as unfair to those for whom > that time falls in their respective nights. AoE removes that > unfairness. ... only with an interpretation of AoE that is shared by nobody. It's quite clear that everyone else on this thread reads the

Re: Feature freeze

2025-04-08 Thread Ashutosh Bapat
On Tue, Apr 8, 2025 at 9:30 PM Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > On 08.04.25 16:59, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 8, 2025 at 10:36:45AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > >> Since we recorded feature freeze as April 8, 2025 0:00 AoE (anywhere on > >> Earth): > >> > >> > >> https://wiki.postgres

Re: Feature freeze

2025-04-08 Thread Robert Haas
On Tue, Apr 8, 2025 at 12:29 PM Andrew Dunstan wrote: > The fact that there is this confusion is an indication that the AoE > experiment is a failure. If it's not obvious, and people have to think > about it, then it's not working. And I bet there is a huge number of > people who have never even h

Re: Feature freeze

2025-04-08 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Tue, Apr 8, 2025 at 11:45:09AM -0400, Peter Geoghegan wrote: > On Tue, Apr 8, 2025 at 11:20 AM Nathan Bossart > wrote: > > +1 for UTC. > > +1, I think that AoE is needlessly obscure We did have this discussion when AoE was chosen for PG 18 and the idea was that as long as it is before April

Re: Feature freeze

2025-04-08 Thread Andrew Dunstan
On 2025-04-08 Tu 12:11 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote: On Tue, Apr 8, 2025 at 06:00:27PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: On 08.04.25 16:59, Bruce Momjian wrote: On Tue, Apr 8, 2025 at 10:36:45AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: Since we recorded feature freeze as April 8, 2025 0:00 AoE (anywhere on Ear

Re: Feature freeze

2025-04-08 Thread Nathan Bossart
On Tue, Apr 08, 2025 at 06:00:27PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On 08.04.25 16:59, Bruce Momjian wrote: >> Anywhere on Earth (AoE) is a calendar designation that indicates >> that a period expires when the date passes everywhere on Earth. > > Yes, that works intuitively when you spec

Re: Feature freeze

2025-04-08 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
On 08/04/2025 19:11, Bruce Momjian wrote: On Tue, Apr 8, 2025 at 06:00:27PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: On 08.04.25 16:59, Bruce Momjian wrote: On Tue, Apr 8, 2025 at 10:36:45AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: Since we recorded feature freeze as April 8, 2025 0:00 AoE (anywhere on Earth):

Re: Feature freeze

2025-04-08 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Tue, Apr 8, 2025 at 06:00:27PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On 08.04.25 16:59, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 8, 2025 at 10:36:45AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > Since we recorded feature freeze as April 8, 2025 0:00 AoE (anywhere on > > > Earth): > > > > > > > > > https://wi

Re: Feature freeze

2025-04-08 Thread Joe Conway
On 4/8/25 11:20, Nathan Bossart wrote: On Tue, Apr 08, 2025 at 05:13:15PM +0200, Daniel Gustafsson wrote: On 8 Apr 2025, at 16:59, Bruce Momjian wrote: Frankly, I think the name "anywhere on Earth" is confusing, since it really is "everywhere on Earth": I find both of the above needlessly con

Re: Feature freeze

2025-04-08 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On 08.04.25 16:59, Bruce Momjian wrote: On Tue, Apr 8, 2025 at 10:36:45AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: Since we recorded feature freeze as April 8, 2025 0:00 AoE (anywhere on Earth): https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PostgreSQL_18_Open_Items#Important_Dates https://www.timeandda

Re: Feature freeze

2025-04-08 Thread Peter Geoghegan
On Tue, Apr 8, 2025 at 11:20 AM Nathan Bossart wrote: > +1 for UTC. +1, I think that AoE is needlessly obscure -- Peter Geoghegan

Re: Feature freeze

2025-04-08 Thread Daniel Gustafsson
> On 8 Apr 2025, at 16:59, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 8, 2025 at 10:36:45AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: >> Since we recorded feature freeze as April 8, 2025 0:00 AoE (anywhere on >> Earth): >> >> https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PostgreSQL_18_Open_Items#Important_Dates >> https://www.

Re: Feature freeze

2025-04-08 Thread Tom Lane
Daniel Gustafsson writes: > On 8 Apr 2025, at 16:59, Bruce Momjian wrote: >> Frankly, I think the name "anywhere on Earth" is confusing, since it >> really is "everywhere on Earth": > I find both of the above needlessly confusing when we instead could use UTC > which is a more universally unders

Re: Feature freeze

2025-04-08 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Tue, Apr 8, 2025 at 10:36:45AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > Since we recorded feature freeze as April 8, 2025 0:00 AoE (anywhere on > Earth): > > > https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PostgreSQL_18_Open_Items#Important_Dates > https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/aoe > > and it i