On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 1:49 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > Review is good, but (as history shows) some bugs can slip through even > extensive review such as the one multixacts got from Noah and Andres. > Had anyone put some real stress on the beta, we could have noticed some > of these bugs much earlier. One of the problems we have is that our > serious users don't seem to take the beta period seriously. All our > users are too busy for that, it seems, and they expect that "somebody > else will test the point-zero release", and that by the time it hits > point-one or point-two it will be bug-free, which is quite clearly not > the case.
Good, strategic stress testing has a big role to play here IMV. I have had some difficulty generating interest in that, but I think it's essential. -- Peter Geoghegan -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers