| From: | Phil Sorber <phil(at)omniti(dot)com> |
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| To: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>, Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Pavan Deolasee <pavan(dot)deolasee(at)gmail(dot)com>, Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: CF3+4 (was Re: Parallel query execution) |
| Date: | 2013-01-22 02:27:55 |
| Message-ID: | CADAkt-gJzjpqO94fVF0dif-v3bSqOFYFxFApLhRV7s8wXhuLgQ@mail.gmail.com |
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On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 8:47 PM, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
>> My own experience is different from yours, I guess. I actually like
>> it when I post a patch, or suggest a concept, and Tom fires back with
>> a laundry list of reasons it won't work.
>
> This can be a problem with new submitters, though. If you're not used
> to the current community dialog, that email can be taken as "your idea
> is stupid because" rather than what it actually means, which is "fix
> these issues and resubmit, please". That's often not clearly
> communicated, and is important with new submitters.
>
+1 to this as well. I definitely felt that way when submitting my
first patch. Robert might even recall a convo at a conference that he
and I had about it. If not for that I might have given up long ago.
Now I can say I am used to it though, and I appreciate the honest and
constructive criticism I receive because over time I have seen that
Tom and others are even critical of themselves and it's really for the
betterment of the final product.
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