On 10/18/2017 05:57 PM, Melvin Davidson wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 11:46 AM, David G. Johnston > <david.g.johns...@gmail.com <mailto:david.g.johns...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > The contributors do an excellent job but the reality of this > community is that a critical mass of people do not start seriously > testing and using a new version until it is officially released. > The first couple of bug-fix releases are thus, unfortunately, likely > to be non-trivial as the masses flex the system at scales and using > workloads that were not known or available to the developers. Its a > balancing act for most and falling on the side of waiting for a few > point releases before promoting to production is, I suspect, common. > > I support the policy of using caution with regards to new versions. They > are often thought of as "bleeding edge" for the reason described by > David G Johnston. The fact that PostgreSQL 10 was only released this > month is critical and therefore is should not be a production server. It > should be used as development, or QA, at best.
No, the Betas and RC should have been used in development and QA. -- Vik Fearing +33 6 46 75 15 36 http://2ndQuadrant.fr PostgreSQL : Expertise, Formation et Support -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
