scott.marlowe wrote: > Peter is coming off awfully paternalistic here. I'd rather have a few > extra scripts to look through to find what I need when I'm trying to > figure out something than to have a tool that only the hackers know exists > and I can only get by asking nicely to see the pretty code. > > While no one wants to see a contrib or tool directory of a hundred megs, > lots of little example files and testing scripts can be nice for nothing > else other than the examples they provide. I learned a lot when I first > started using pgsql from the things in the contrib directory.
Having something that just runs and I don't have to fiddle with it is a big help --- of course, it took me a few years to realize that this is the best way to test patches --- kind of embarassing that I didn't think of it in 1997. I think the patch came out of complaints that my patch application was letting in broken code --- since I have been using it, I am mostly down to weird bugs or platform problem, but the obvious patch problems are pretty much gone, which some people might have noticed. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
