Looking over the list of open items, it seems we are on target for a
November 1 release.  I think that is the date Marc had in mind, and it
looks like we are in good shape, assuming I can fix the "vacuum crash"
item.

I don't think we can release without the 'ps' args fix, and we can't
turn that off because it caused by the fork() removal I did long ago.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------


Additions
---------
test new cidr/IP address type(Tom Helbekkmo)
complete rewrite system changes(Jan)
CREATE TABLE test (x text, s serial) fails if no database creation permission
regression test all platforms
vacuum crash

Serious Items
------------
change pg args for platforms that don't support argv changes
	(setproctitle()?, sendmail hack?)

Docs
----
man pages/sgml synchronization
generate html/postscript documentation
make sure all changes are documented properly

Minor items
-----------
cnf-ify still can exhaust memory, make SET KSQO more generic
permissions on indexes:  what do they do?  should it be prevented?
multi-verion concurrency control - work-in-progress for 6.5
improve reporting of syntax errors by showing location of error in query
use index with constants on functions
allow chaining of pages to allow >8k tuples
allow multiple generic operators in expressions without the use of parentheses
document/trigger/rule so changes to pg_shadow create pg_pwd
large objects orphanage
improve group handling
no min/max for oid type
improve PRIMARY KEY handling
generate postmaster pid file and remove flock/fcntl lock code


-- 
  Bruce Momjian                        |  http://www.op.net/~candle
  maillist@candle.pha.pa.us            |  (610) 853-3000
  +  If your life is a hard drive,     |  830 Blythe Avenue
  +  Christ can be your backup.        |  Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026


Fri, 9 Oct 1998 18:03:57 -0400 (EDT)
Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Release schedule
On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Looking over the list of open items, it seems we are on target for a
> November 1 release.  I think that is the date Marc had in mind, and it
> looks like we are in good shape, assuming I can fix the "vacuum crash"
> item.
> 
> I don't think we can release without the 'ps' args fix, and we can't
> turn that off because it caused by the fork() removal I did long ago.

	Most humble apologies...I have a bad hard drive in my machine that
I'm just recovering from (and awaiting replacement for *sigh*)...am
spending a good portion of today at the office trying to get things back
on track...

	Currently am doing a build on Solaris x86/Sparc 2.6, as well as
FreeBSD, but the FreeBSD one is kind of a munged machine until my home
machine is fixed *sigh*

	If I get a clean build off of both x86/Sparc of Solaris, and
unless there are any major objections, I'm going to put out a
beta2...'ps' args fix to follow shortly...

	 > 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> Additions
> ---------
> test new cidr/IP address type(Tom Helbekkmo)
> complete rewrite system changes(Jan)
> CREATE TABLE test (x text, s serial) fails if no database creation permission
> regression test all platforms
> vacuum crash
> 
> Serious Items
> ------------
> change pg args for platforms that don't support argv changes
> 	(setproctitle()?, sendmail hack?)
> 
> Docs
> ----
> man pages/sgml synchronization
> generate html/postscript documentation
> make sure all changes are documented properly
> 
> Minor items
> -----------
> cnf-ify still can exhaust memory, make SET KSQO more generic
> permissions on indexes:  what do they do?  should it be prevented?
> multi-verion concurrency control - work-in-progress for 6.5
> improve reporting of syntax errors by showing location of error in query
> use index with constants on functions
> allow chaining of pages to allow >8k tuples
> allow multiple generic operators in expressions without the use of parentheses
> document/trigger/rule so changes to pg_shadow create pg_pwd
> large objects orphanage
> improve group handling
> no min/max for oid type
> improve PRIMARY KEY handling
> generate postmaster pid file and remove flock/fcntl lock code
> 
> 
> -- 
>   Bruce Momjian                        |  http://www.op.net/~candle
>   maillist@candle.pha.pa.us            |  (610) 853-3000
>   +  If your life is a hard drive,     |  830 Blythe Avenue
>   +  Christ can be your backup.        |  Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026
> 
> 

Marc G. Fournier                               scrappy@hub.org
Systems Administrator @ hub.org                    
scrappy@{postgresql|isc}.org                       ICQ#7615664


Mon, 12 Oct 1998 15:59:40 -0400 (EDT)
"Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>
Re: [HACKERS] Release schedule