On 5/30/15 8:38 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
> On 05/30/2015 03:48 PM, David Steele wrote:
>> On 5/30/15 2:10 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
>>> What, in this release, could break things badly? RLS? Grouping sets?
>>> Heikki's WAL format changes? That last one sounds really scary to me;
>>> it's painful if not impossible to fix the WAL format in a minor
>>> release.
>>
>> I would argue Heikki's WAL stuff is a perfect case for releasing a
>> public alpha/beta soon. I'd love to test PgBackRest with an "official"
>> 9.5dev build. The PgBackRest test suite has lots of tests that run on
>> versions 8.3+ and might well shake out any bugs that are lying around.
>
> You are right. Clone git, run it nightly automated and please, please
> report anything you find. There is no reason for a tagged release for
> that. Consider it a custom, purpose built, build-test farm.
Sure - I can write code to do that. But then why release a beta at all?
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