On Wednesday, April 11, 2012, Robert Haas wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Peter Geoghegan 
> <pe...@2ndquadrant.com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> > On 11 April 2012 02:14, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> >> My perception of what's going on here is dramatically different from
> >> yours.  I don't think there was any overflow of submissions for 9.2.
> >
> > That is just not true. See the attached graph (couldn't produce one
> > with better resolution at short notice) - I've just eyeballed the
> > graph, but it looks like an upward trend to me.
>
> I don't know what this is a graph of, but if you look at the number of
> patches in each of the CommitFests for the last couple of releases,
> you see this:
>
> 9.0: 66, 40, 38, 60
> 9.1: 53, 52, 43, 96
> 9.2: 60, 52, 53, 104
>
> There might be an upward trend there, but it isn't a very steep one.
> It also seems pretty clear to me (although you are welcome to
> disagree) that even if the *number* of patches in 9.2 was higher than
> 9.1, the average complexity was less, at least for the first three
> CommitFests.
>
> By the way, let's take a look at the major features list for 9.0 and
> 9.1, as well as who wrote them.
>
> From the 9.0 release notes:
>
> - Streaming Replication (Fujii Masao - not a committer)
> - Hot Standby (Simon Riggs - committer - though he wasn't when he
> wrote the first version of this patch)
> - GRANT/REVOKE IN SCHEMA (Petr Jelinek - not a committer)
> - ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES (Petr Jelinek - not a committer)
> - DO (Peter Jelinek - not a committer)
> - 64-bit Windows (Tsutomu Yamada, Magnus Hagander - not a committer
> and a committer, respectively)
> - Better window functions (Hitoshi Harada - not a committer)
> - ORDER BY for aggregates (Andrew Gierth - not a committer)
> - Deferrable unique constraints (Dean Rasheed - not a committer)
> - Exclusion constraints (Jeff Davis - not a committer)
> - RADIUS (Magnus Hagander - a committer)
> - LDAP improvements (Robert Fleming, Magnus Hagander - not a committer
> and a committer, respectively)
> - Better LISTEN/NOTIFY (Joachim Wieland - not a committer)
> - Better VACUUM FULL (Itagaki Takahiro, Tom Lane - both now
> committers, but Itagaki Takahiro became one only later)
> - pg_upgrade (Bruce Momjian - a committer)
> - join removal (Robert Haas - now a committer, but not then)
> - EXPLAIN enhancements (Robert Haas - now a committer, but not then)
> - hstore enhancments (Andrew Gierth - now a committer, but not then)
>

For the sake of the archives - Andrew Gierth is not a committer now either.

//Magnus



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