| From: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com, Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)kaigai(dot)gr(dot)jp>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)ak(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Joshua Brindle <method(at)manicmethod(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Jaime Casanova <jcasanov(at)systemguards(dot)com(dot)ec> |
| Subject: | Re: Updates of SE-PostgreSQL 8.4devel patches (r1704) |
| Date: | 2009-03-10 03:53:52 |
| Message-ID: | 49B5E450.4090604@agliodbs.com |
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Tom,
> Frankly, what we have here is a large patch, with insanely difficult
> correctness requirements, written by a Postgres newbie. If it doesn't
> scare you, you haven't been paying attention. We have a long track
> record of problems with patches written by people who thought they were
> ready to do major backend hacking without having bitten off some smaller
> chunks first.
If that was the case, why didn't you say it 4 months ago? It seems
rather unfair to Kaigai and everyone else who worked on it to be getting
cold feet about the entire concept after several months of debugging.
--Josh Berkus
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