Re: [HACKERS] Alpha release this week?

2010-04-05 Thread Greg Smith
Josh Berkus wrote: I started with pgbench performance comparisons: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Pgbenchtesting I'd already created http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Regression_Testing_with_pgbench for this purpose, and it looks like you started where I ended that, more or less, which is

Re: [HACKERS] Alpha release this week?

2010-04-05 Thread Josh Berkus
Greg, http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Regression_Testing_with_pgbench for this purpose, and it looks like you started where I ended that, more or less, which is good because you didn't duplicate anything I'd already written. Lucky! I didn't find that one when I looked. FWIW, the new

Re: [HACKERS] Alpha release this week?

2010-04-02 Thread Peter Geoghegan
Hello, I'd like to put myself forward to test Dave's alpha5 windows binaries tomorrow. I use that platform for about 75% of my pg work, and others tend to have limited enthusiasm for it (as I guess I would if I had the luxury of being able to), so that seems to be where I would be of most use. I

Re: [HACKERS] Alpha release this week?

2010-04-02 Thread Josh Berkus
Peter, Thanks! Great to have you participating! I suppose I'll try out my 8.4 app, which uses dblink and hstore, on 9.0 alpha5 and see if anything breaks, and play around with the features that are new to 9.0, as outlined on the postgres wiki for the SFPUG Beta Test Day. This seems a little

Re: [HACKERS] Alpha release this week?

2010-04-01 Thread Dave Page
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:24 AM, Robert Haas robertmh...@gmail.com wrote: This stuff is now also at: ftp://developer.postgresql.org/pub/source/9.0alpha5/ Thanks Robert. We're working on this, but it seems that changes in the PG build have broken the debugger again. Hopefully we can get it

Re: [HACKERS] Alpha release this week?

2010-04-01 Thread Dave Page
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Dave Page dp...@pgadmin.org wrote: On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:24 AM, Robert Haas robertmh...@gmail.com wrote: This stuff is now also at: ftp://developer.postgresql.org/pub/source/9.0alpha5/ Thanks Robert. We're working on this, but it seems that changes in the

Re: [HACKERS] Alpha release this week?

2010-04-01 Thread Josh Berkus
Robert, Dave, Thanks so much for building these. Hopefully we'll get a good turnout and get a lot of things tested. -- -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc. http://www.pgexperts.com

Re: [HACKERS] Alpha release this week?

2010-03-31 Thread Dave Page
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 1:04 AM, Magnus Hagander mag...@hagander.net wrote: Last i heard from Dave on that topic is that there's no chance of that happening that quickly. He's on a plane now but I'm sure he'll confirm that when he lands. Not with any amount of testing as we'd normally give any

Re: [HACKERS] Alpha release this week?

2010-03-31 Thread Josh Berkus
Dave, Not with any amount of testing as we'd normally give any build before releasing it anyway. I can certainly stuff a tarball into the new build machine and see what comes out the next morning. That would be good enough for Saturday; we're going to test it after all. Let me know which

Re: [HACKERS] Alpha release this week?

2010-03-31 Thread Dave Page
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Josh Berkus j...@agliodbs.com wrote: Dave, Not with any amount of testing as we'd normally give any build before releasing it anyway. I can certainly stuff a tarball into the new build machine and see what comes out the next morning. That would be good

Re: [HACKERS] Alpha release this week?

2010-03-31 Thread Robert Haas
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Dave Page dp...@pgadmin.org wrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Josh Berkus j...@agliodbs.com wrote: Dave, Not with any amount of testing as we'd normally give any build before releasing it anyway. I can certainly stuff a tarball into the new build

Re: [HACKERS] Alpha release this week?

2010-03-31 Thread Devrim GÜNDÜZ
On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 10:46 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote: Not with any amount of testing as we'd normally give any build before releasing it anyway. I can certainly stuff a tarball into the new build machine and see what comes out the next morning. That would be good enough for Saturday;

Re: [HACKERS] Alpha release this week?

2010-03-31 Thread Dave Page
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Robert Haas robertmh...@gmail.com wrote: I can snap a tarball tonight if you want.  I'm going to be leaving town tomorrow afternoon, though. Works for me. I'll stuff it into our shiny new 9.0 build machine tomorrow. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK:

Re: [HACKERS] Alpha release this week?

2010-03-31 Thread Josh Berkus
Robert, I can snap a tarball tonight if you want. I'm going to be leaving town tomorrow afternoon, though. Please do. -- -- Josh Berkus PostgreSQL Experts Inc.

Re: [HACKERS] Alpha release this week?

2010-03-31 Thread Robert Haas
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Josh Berkus j...@agliodbs.com wrote: I can snap a tarball tonight if you want.  I'm going to be leaving town tomorrow afternoon, though. Please do. If someone could email me off list where they would like the tarball put, with login credentials, I will put it

Re: [HACKERS] Alpha release this week?

2010-03-31 Thread Robert Haas
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Dave Page dp...@pgadmin.org wrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Robert Haas robertmh...@gmail.com wrote: I can snap a tarball tonight if you want.  I'm going to be leaving town tomorrow afternoon, though. Works for me. I'll stuff it into our shiny new 9.0

Re: [HACKERS] Alpha release this week?

2010-03-31 Thread Robert Haas
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Robert Haas robertmh...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 3:29 PM, Dave Page dp...@pgadmin.org wrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Robert Haas robertmh...@gmail.com wrote: I can snap a tarball tonight if you want.  I'm going to be leaving town

Re: [HACKERS] Alpha release this week?

2010-03-30 Thread Stefan Kaltenbrunner
Alvaro Herrera wrote: Josh Berkus escribió: And snaphsots have more compile dependancies than releases do. As far as I know, a snapshot is identical to a release in that regard. If they are not, that's a bug and we can fix it before weekend. yeah - snapshots do have the same compile time

Re: [HACKERS] Alpha release this week?

2010-03-30 Thread Josh Berkus
On 3/29/10 5:04 PM, Magnus Hagander wrote: Last i heard from Dave on that topic is that there's no chance of that happening that quickly. He's on a plane now but I'm sure he'll confirm that when he lands. That means that we'll be doing the test-fest using Alpha4, materially. Which is annoying

Re: [HACKERS] Alpha release this week?

2010-03-30 Thread Robert Haas
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Josh Berkus j...@agliodbs.com wrote: On 3/29/10 5:04 PM, Magnus Hagander wrote: Last i heard from Dave on that topic is that there's no chance of that happening that quickly. He's on a plane now but I'm sure he'll confirm that when he lands. That means that

Re: [HACKERS] Alpha release this week?

2010-03-30 Thread Fujii Masao
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 7:01 AM, Robert Haas robertmh...@gmail.com wrote: At the risk of being blunt, AFAICT, the delay in getting to beta has little or nothing to do with testing and everything to do with the fact that streaming replication got committed with a long list of open items two

Re: [HACKERS] Alpha release this week?

2010-03-30 Thread Stefan Kaltenbrunner
Josh Berkus wrote: On 3/29/10 5:04 PM, Magnus Hagander wrote: Last i heard from Dave on that topic is that there's no chance of that happening that quickly. He's on a plane now but I'm sure he'll confirm that when he lands. That means that we'll be doing the test-fest using Alpha4,

Re: [HACKERS] Alpha release this week?

2010-03-29 Thread Stefan Kaltenbrunner
Robert Haas wrote: On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Josh Berkus j...@agliodbs.com wrote: We've got two locations and some individuals signed up for a test-fest this weekend. Would it be possible to do an alpha release this week? It would really help to be testing later code than Alpha4. I'm

Re: [HACKERS] Alpha release this week?

2010-03-29 Thread Josh Berkus
or just use a specific recent snapshot and let people test that just in case it is not feasible doing a new alpha on short notice. Doesn't work if we want to test it on windows. And snaphsots have more compile dependancies than releases do. Also ... this isn't short notice. I requested a

Re: [HACKERS] Alpha release this week?

2010-03-29 Thread Robert Haas
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Josh Berkus j...@agliodbs.com wrote: or just use a specific recent snapshot and let people test that just in case it is not feasible doing a new alpha on short notice. Doesn't work if we want to test it on windows.  And snaphsots have more compile

Re: [HACKERS] Alpha release this week?

2010-03-29 Thread Stefan Kaltenbrunner
Robert Haas wrote: On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Josh Berkus j...@agliodbs.com wrote: or just use a specific recent snapshot and let people test that just in case it is not feasible doing a new alpha on short notice. Doesn't work if we want to test it on windows. And snaphsots have more

Re: [HACKERS] Alpha release this week?

2010-03-29 Thread Robert Haas
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Stefan Kaltenbrunner ste...@kaltenbrunner.cc wrote: yeah but you also need people changing the website - and probably more important given that josh wants windows as well help from dave for doing a new windows installer :) True... well, I can't help with those

Re: [HACKERS] Alpha release this week?

2010-03-29 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On sön, 2010-03-28 at 19:22 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Josh Berkus j...@agliodbs.com wrote: We've got two locations and some individuals signed up for a test-fest this weekend. Would it be possible to do an alpha release this week? It would really help to be

Re: [HACKERS] Alpha release this week?

2010-03-29 Thread Magnus Hagander
Last i heard from Dave on that topic is that there's no chance of that happening that quickly. He's on a plane now but I'm sure he'll confirm that when he lands. /Magnus On Mar 29, 2010 6:14 PM, Peter Eisentraut pete...@gmx.net wrote: On sön, 2010-03-28 at 19:22 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: On

Re: [HACKERS] Alpha release this week?

2010-03-29 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Josh Berkus escribió: And snaphsots have more compile dependancies than releases do. As far as I know, a snapshot is identical to a release in that regard. If they are not, that's a bug and we can fix it before weekend. -- Alvaro Herrera

Re: [HACKERS] Alpha release this week?

2010-03-28 Thread Robert Haas
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Josh Berkus j...@agliodbs.com wrote: We've got two locations and some individuals signed up for a test-fest this weekend.  Would it be possible to do an alpha release this week? It would really help to be testing later code than Alpha4. I'm willing to do the