Re: [PATCHES] Bitmapscan changes

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
>> Allow the community to drive the inclusion by making it as easy as
>> possible to allow a proactive argument to take place by the people
>> actually using the product.
>
> This seems to be a rather poor decision making process: "Are the users
> happy with the new feature? If so, then apply the patch." It leads to
> unmanageable code.

Perhaps reading my message again is in order. I think it is pretty
obvious that the a user shouldn't determine if a patch should be applied.

My whole point was that if people are clamoring for the feature, it
could drive that feature to be more aggressively reviewed.

I can't even count how many times I see:

This seems like a corner case feature, I don't think we should add it.

So I am suggesting a way to insure that the feature is not considered
corner case. (if it is indeed not a corner case)

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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