On 2016-01-20 13:13:29 -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> (3) Andres's multixact reworks landed quite late and IMHO were not
> safe enough to back-patch, yet they needed to be in the release. In
> my view, the last major fix for
At least in that case I was, for a long while, basically hoping for more
input, probably unwisely so. I think the 9.4 jsonb compressability thing
essentially was in a somewhat similar state for months; the proposed
patch was mostly there, but we didn't press ahead. I think deadlines
and multiple people being blocked help tremendously with such issues.
They're often too complex for an individual and/or delayed due to lack
of concensus.
> But if we end up waiting just as long but with nothing substantial
> getting committed in the meantime, that will be awful.
That's true. Which I think means that we'll need to be agressive in
threatening reverts in such cases. That wouldn't have worked for 3), but
in the other two cases it'd have been doable.
Andres