Re: 9.5 release scheduling (was Re: logical column ordering)

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 10:37:32AM -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
>> 2. It's not clear that we're going to have a particularly-impressive
>> list of major features for 9.5.

> How bad is the 9.5 feature list going to be compared to the 9.4 one that
> had JSONB, but also a lot of infrastructure additions.

Well, whatever the list ends up being, "let's wait until we have some
more features" isn't a tenable scheduling policy.  We learned years ago
the folly of delaying a release until not-quite-ready feature X was ready.
Are we going to delay 9.5 until not-even-proposed-yet features are ready?

More abstractly, there's a lot of value in having a predictable release
schedule.  That's going to mean that some release cycles are thin on
user-visible features, even if just as much work went into them.  It's
the nature of the game.
        regards, tom lane