Michael Paquier <michael.paqu...@gmail.com> writes: > On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 2:38 AM, David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> wrote: >> On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 06:05:05PM +0700, Ali Akbar wrote: >>> 2015-01-18 10:44 GMT+07:00 Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net>: >>>> Btw, for bug-fix patches like this, should the patch creator (me) also >>>> create patches for back branches?
>> As I understand it, back-patches are the committer's responsibility. >> The submitter might make suggestions as to how this might be >> approached if it doesn't appear trivial. > TBH, I would imagine that patches that can be applied to back-branches > are a better start point than plain scratch particularly if there are > diffs in stable branches compared to HEAD. Everybody's time is > important. Yeah --- and I'd argue that it's largely a waste of time to work on creating back-branch patches until the HEAD patch is in final form. Since we've generally reserved the right for the committer to whack patches around before committing, I think this means the committer also has to do the work of back-patch adjustment. Now a committer who doesn't feel like doing that could certainly say "here's the version of the HEAD patch that I'm willing to commit, but it doesn't apply cleanly in back branches; could you work up back-branch equivalents?". But that hasn't been the usual approach. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers