Re: Status of 8.3 patches

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, ITAGAKI Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)oss(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>
Subject: Re: Status of 8.3 patches
Date: 2007-08-20 21:02:13
Message-ID: 46CA0155.7090608@dunslane.net
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
> I guess my point is, if the patch looks good and does not appear to hurt
> anything, why not apply it? At least that way we can start to review the
> progress of the feature itself as it starts to see use.
>
>

I don't think that's a very good criterion. We need to have good
evidence that the change has positive benefit. We don't want to be doing
speculative changes.

cheers

andrew

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