Re: [PATCHES] Re: Cleanup of ODBC

On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> > Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > > I am working to clean up the comments in ODBC, and remove some blank
> > > lines that make no sense being there. This will not affect the code in
> > > any way. I should commit in a few hours.
> >
> > Is it really appropriate to be doing this sort of work post-RC1?
> > I see no gain and a nontrivial risk that you will break something
> > without knowing it (and without providing adequate time to test it).
> >
> > It's bad enough to be running pgindent at this late stage of the cycle,
> > but at least pgindent is automated and relatively unlikely to make
> > errors. Massive hand edits are another story.
> >
> > In short: save it for 7.2.
>
> OK, but will people complain if I make comment changes in 7.2 and mess
> up their patches and the 7.1 patches people submit?

Who cares? Man, I'd hate for this project to ever get to the size of
Linux or FreeBSD ... we'd be spending so much time "cleaning" what doesn't
need to be cleaned that we'd get no work done *sigh*