Re: What I would say if someone asked me about no

Bruce Momjian wrote:

> The Hermit Hacker wrote:
>> On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > Jan is right that we need Win32 maintainers. I want to set up a few
>> > things to grow the group, just like Jan did when he added foreign keys:
>> >
>> > o mailing list
>>
>> pgsql-hackers-win32?
>
> Good.
>
>> > o cvs branch
>>
>> did we do this for foreign keys? I thought we'd always avoided doing that
>> ...
>
> Right. I don't think we did it for foreign keys, but I think we will
> need it so multiple people can work and submit patches. I could just
> keep a separate Win32 tree here and publish the diffs against current
> CVS, if that is better. I can put it up on ftp, so, yea, we don't need
> it, and it keeps us honest about tracking win32. What it doesn't do is
> to allow folks to get cvs changes to a tree they have already modified.

We didn't do it for foreign keys because FK was a comparably "tiny"
project, considering the amount of base code that needed to be touched
(basically it's been building the deferred trigger queue and the
snapshot override, from there it all took place in the ri_trigger.c).

Win32 is different, and therefore has different administrative needs.

Jan

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