On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> writes:
>> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 12:37 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> As has been mentioned a couple times, we're well overdue for updates of
>>> the back branches. Seems like time to get that done, so we'll be
>>> wrapping 8.2.x and up this Thursday for release Monday the 26th.
>
>> 8.2 up, including 9.1.1? I'm not sure our QA guys will be able to cope
>> with verification of so many individual installers in that timeframe -
>> 8.2 - 9.0 is hard enough to do in one go.
>
> Well, all the pre-9.1 branches are definitely badly in need of updates.
> 9.1 maybe could go without at this point, but we do have one crasher bug
> and one serious memory leak fixed there, neither new in 9.1. I'd just
> as soon not establish a precedent for not releasing the same fixes at
> the same time in all branches.
>
> How about we wrap them all, but you could let your team slip the 9.1
> update for a day or so if they need more time? It's certainly less
> critical than the older branches.
OK, well we can push the installers much more quickly over the CDN anyway.
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