Tom Lane wrote: > Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes: > > No, it's not. There's a bunch of patches which we had nothing on -- not > > spec, not design draft, not anything -- until we got them on July 20th. > > Our current system is to have only one deadline, > > Well, no, it's not. We have told people till we're blue in the face > "post early, post often". Now I will plead guilty to not always having > spent as much time giving feedback on draft patches as I should've, but > the process is pretty clear. As I see it the main problem is people > undertaking patches off in corners somewhere rather than discussing > their work on the mailing lists while they do it. > > If you want more process in this we could institute rules like "feature > patches will be rejected out of hand if there wasn't previously a spec > proposal posted to pghackers". I don't think this is really a good > idea, but I'm not sure what else to do.
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