Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-hackers] Daily digest v1.9418 (15 messages)

2009-08-29 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 01:12:20PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > This is pretty cool, IMO. Admittedly, it does seem hard to bottle it, > but you managed it, so it's not completely impossible. What you could > for this kind of thing is a series of patches and driver scripts, so > you build PostgreSQ

Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-hackers] Daily digest v1.9418 (15 messages)

2009-08-27 Thread Robert Haas
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Jeff Janes wrote: >> -- Forwarded message -- >> From: Tom Lane >> To: Robert Haas >> Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:11:24 -0400 >> Subject: Re: 8.5 release timetable, again >> >> What I'd like to see is some sort of test mechanism for WAL recovery. >>

Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-hackers] Daily digest v1.9418 (15 messages)

2009-08-27 Thread Jeff Janes
> > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Tom Lane > To: Robert Haas > Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:11:24 -0400 > Subject: Re: 8.5 release timetable, again > > What I'd like to see is some sort of test mechanism for WAL recovery. > What I've done sometimes in the past (and recently had to

Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-hackers] Daily digest v1.9418 (15 messages)

2009-08-27 Thread Kevin Grittner
Jeff Janes wrote: > But the fact that a piece of code was executed doesn't mean > it did the right thing. If it does something subtly wrong, > will we notice? That's why it takes some time to fashion a decent test. On the other hand, if code is not being exercised at at all during the beta

Re: [HACKERS] [pgsql-hackers] Daily digest v1.9418 (15 messages)

2009-08-27 Thread Jeff Janes
> > -- Forwarded message -- > From: "Kevin Grittner" > To: "Robert Haas" , "Bruce Momjian" < > br...@momjian.us> > Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:07:05 -0500 > Subject: Re: 8.5 release timetable, again > Robert Haas wrote: > > > Maybe we should be looking at an expanded test suite that