On Saturday, May 30, 2015, Bruce Momjian <
bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 12:26:11PM -0700, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 5:56 AM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> > Frankly, based on how I feel now, I would have no problem doing 9.5 in
> > 2016 and saying we have a lot of retooling to do. We could say we have
> > gotten too far out ahead of ourselves and we need to regroup and
> > restructure the code.
>
> I wouldn't mind doing that, but I think it's premature to conclude
> that it's necessary to wait quite that long to release.
I agree it probably wouldn't take until 2016, but if does take until
2016, we have to be fine with that. What I am saying is we can't just
continue to focus on hitting target dates and assume everything will be
fine, because it isn't.
On a slightly tangential note: I'm not prepared to defend doing so but it seems worth at least considering whether we should continue supporting 9.0 beyond this October.
I don't think it should be be de-supported until at least a couple of 9.5 point releases have been found to be stable.
David J.