On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> We really should not be making changes of this type less than a month
>> from our ostensible release date. That is not enough time for us to
>> notice if the changes turn out to be not as good as we think they are.
>
> If it weren't for the fact that we'll be wedded forevermore to a bad
> choice of syntax, I might agree with you. But at this point, the
> alternatives we have are to fix it now, or fix it never. I don't
> like #2.
Or postpone the release for another month or two. There's still a few
other unresolved issues, too, like the problems with psql and expanded
mode; and the JSONB toast problems. The latter is relatively new, but
we don't have a proposed patch for it yet unless there's on in an
email I haven't read yet, and the former has been lingering for many
months without getting appreciably closer to a resolution.
I like releasing in September as much as anyone, but that contemplates
people taking care to get known issues fixed before the second half of
August.
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Robert Haas
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