On Tuesday 22 August 2006 16:10, Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > It sucks that patches are posted and no action is taken on them for
> > months. I agree with that.
>
> This particular patch was originally posted during the 8.1 feature
> freeze window (2005-09-29), so it was doomed to a certain amount of
> languishing on the to-worry-about-later list in any case. We should
> have gotten around to reviewing it sooner than we did (the followup
> discussion was around 2006-06-14), but there was still plenty of time
> at that point to rework it per the discussion and get it into 8.2.
>
> As I see it, we've effectively got a patch that was rejected once,
> and Bruce wants to apply it anyway because no replacement has been
> forthcoming.
>
Well, unless someone is going to commit to doing it the other way, it seems
the guy who actually codes something offers a better solution than
handwaving... people have also had plenty of time to come up with a
replacement if that's what they really wanted.
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Robert Treat
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