Re: [PATCHES] [0/4] Proposal of SE-PostgreSQL patches

"Greg Smith" <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com> writes:

> On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, KaiGai Kohei wrote:
>
>> I'll submit the proposal of SE-PostgreSQL patches again, because some of previous
>> messages are filtered due to attachment and I cannot provide whole of patches yet.
>
> This is actually what you should have done from the beginning. And it only
> should have gone to the pgsql-hackers list, which is the only one I'm replying
> to. Your patches are at this point a proposal, as you say in the subject, and
> those go to the pgsql-hackers list with the minimum of files necessary to
> support them. pgsql-patches is generally aimed at patches that have already
> been discussed on the hackers list, ones that are basically ready to apply to
> the source code.

Some people shout any time you send patches to -hackers. For the -patches is
there mainly to catch large attachments regardless of their maturity.

But it's true that it's best to post a plan and have discussion prior to
developing big patches.

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