Andrew Dunstan wrote: > Josh Berkus wrote: > >Andrew, > > > >>What happened was that Tom objected to (or at least queried the need > >>for) the patch on the grounds that it was bloat that nobody had asked > >>for. And when I asked I wasn't exactly deluged with requests to commit, > >>so I concluded that it was not generally wanted. > > > >Did you poll on -hackers or on -patches? A *lot* less people read > >-patches. > > Yeah. true. Although, I must say that I discovered very early on in my > pg-hacking experience that unless you read -patches too you don't really > know what's going on ;-)
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