Re: a raft of parallelism-related bug fixes

On 02/08/2016 01:11 PM, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 12:18 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> I accept that this might have been a somewhat isolated incident (that
> I couldn't easily get *at least* a little instant gratification), but
> it still should be avoided. You've accused me of burying the lead
> plenty of times. Don't tell me that it was too hard to prominently
> place those details somewhere where I or any other contributor could
> reasonably expect to find them, like the CF app page, or a wiki page
> that is maintained on an ongoing basis (and linked to at the start of
> each thread). If I said that that was too much to you, you'd probably
> shout at me. If I persisted, you wouldn't commit my patch, and for me
> that probably means it's DOA.
>
> I don't think I'm asking for much here.
>
> [1] http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAM3SWZSefE4uQk3r_3gwpfDWWtT3P51SceVsL4=g8v_mE2Abtg@mail.gmail.com
> [2] http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CA+TgmoartTF8eptBhiNwxUkfkctsFc7WtZFhGEGQywE8e2vCmg@mail.gmail.com

This part of the thread seems like something that should be a new thread
about how to write patches. I agree that patches that are large features
that are in depth discussed on a maintained wiki page would be awesome.
Creating that knowledge base without having to troll through code would
be priceless in value.

Sincerely,

JD

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