On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 09:51:04PM -0400, David Steele wrote: > On 5/30/15 8:38 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > On 05/30/2015 03:48 PM, David Steele wrote: > >> I would argue Heikki's WAL stuff is a perfect case for releasing a > >> public alpha/beta soon. I'd love to test PgBackRest with an "official" > >> 9.5dev build. The PgBackRest test suite has lots of tests that run on > >> versions 8.3+ and might well shake out any bugs that are lying around. > > > > You are right. Clone git, run it nightly automated and please, please > > report anything you find. There is no reason for a tagged release for > > that. Consider it a custom, purpose built, build-test farm. > > Sure - I can write code to do that. But then why release a beta at all?
It's largely for the benefit of folks planning manual, or otherwise high-cost, testing. If you budget for just one big test per year, make it a test of beta1. For inexpensive testing, you may as well ignore beta and test git master daily or weekly. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
