| From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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| To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Rosser Schwarz <rosser(dot)schwarz(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Joshua N Pritikin <jpritikin(at)pobox(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: beginning hackers |
| Date: | 2005-08-22 22:18:25 |
| Message-ID: | 430A4F31.3080408@dunslane.net |
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 05:31:04PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>
>
>>A couple of nice visible projects on the TODO list that might be
>>suitable for beginners:
>>
>>. Add "include file" functionality in postgresql.conf
>>. Remove Money type, add money formatting for decimal type
>>
>>
>
>Actually they are both bad projects. The "include file" patch was
>submitted by the @mohawksoft guy whose name I can't remember; it was
>rejected with good reasons. The money type was proposed for removal
>some time ago, and the author also asked not to.
>
>
If the idea is bad it should be knocked off the list. If the
implementation was bad it might well be a reason someone else should
have a go.
Last I recall on money, the only issue preventing its removal was that
numeric formatting wasn't good enough.
cheers
andrew
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