As a point of clarification though Beta => GA is about production hardening. Products can't go to GA without demonstrating that they've met their SLOs continuously for several weeks. Products can take longer than that if they feel they should make more tweaks first (and pgsql certainly qualifies), but we want to both ship quickly and get out of the reputation for perpetual Beta.
I don't want to be overly negative though - releasing now at least let's us play with it and see how it stacks up.
As soon as it gets out of beta, it will get an SLA and deprecation policy of hopefully 2+ years notice before it gets discontinued.
This might is bit off topic on this thread.
Seems like there is some confusion going on about the Free tier on a post[1]. Can you please comment there on whether the 'Always free' is free only during the first 12 months or forever?
Also, if I have been using Google Cloud since before today (when free trial was $300 over 60 days), am I still eligible for the 'Always free' tier?
From the page linked and the FAQ, it looks like it but many people on the thread I've linked are thinking otherwise.
Can you please clear that up for us? Thank you!
Another quick question. Is there anyway to see during instance creation/usage if it is part of the free tier?
When I create a f1-micro instance, it shows the usual $5/month billing, but doesn't indicate any kind of 'free tier' usage. How can we know if any service we use will be a part of the free tier for sure? I guess I can wait a few days to see if any costs accrue, but I was wondering if there was a better way for everyone.
No timeline, partially because we don't know ourselves. Our main priority for next few weeks will be ensuring everything is nice and stable. Once we are confident in current feature set we will start adding more. You can watch https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/postgres/release-notes for news.
Source: I work on Cloud Postgres.
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (but not Cloud SQL).