Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] drop if exists remainder

2006-06-08 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Tom Lane wrote: > Josh Berkus writes: > > This has been a problem in the past. I'd generally ask that, if a patch > > which was discussed on -hackers gets rejected on -patches, that discussion > > be brought back to -hackers. Often the people who supported the original > > feature are not on

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] drop if exists remainder

2006-06-08 Thread Tom Lane
Josh Berkus writes: > This has been a problem in the past. I'd generally ask that, if a patch > which was discussed on -hackers gets rejected on -patches, that discussion > be brought back to -hackers. Often the people who supported the original > feature are not on -patches and then are unpl

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] drop if exists remainder

2006-06-08 Thread Alvaro Herrera
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

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] drop if exists remainder

2006-06-08 Thread Andrew Dunstan
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.

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] drop if exists remainder

2006-06-08 Thread Josh Berkus
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 -hack

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] drop if exists remainder

2006-06-08 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Jim C. Nasby wrote: Important as you are, "one swallow does not make a summer". On the other hand, unless we want the lists filling up with a bunch of +1 posts, it's probably better to assume that unless someone objects a patch would be accepted. What happened was that Tom objected

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] drop if exists remainder

2006-06-08 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 12:34:54PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > David Fetter wrote: > >On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 09:43:19AM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > > >>OK there does seem to be some demand for this, so I will rework the > >>patch, and hope to get it done by feature freeze - it has bitrot

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] drop if exists remainder

2006-06-08 Thread Andrew Dunstan
David Fetter wrote: On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 09:43:19AM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: OK there does seem to be some demand for this, so I will rework the patch, and hope to get it done by feature freeze - it has bitrotted with 7 merge conflicts, including the grammar file, so I need to look car

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] drop if exists remainder

2006-06-08 Thread David Fetter
On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 09:43:19AM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > OK there does seem to be some demand for this, so I will rework the > patch, and hope to get it done by feature freeze - it has bitrotted > with 7 merge conflicts, including the grammar file, so I need to > look carefully at that. P

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] drop if exists remainder

2006-06-08 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Josh Berkus wrote: Tom, What's the consensus on this? Nobody else has chimed in, so I'm inclined to do no more on the gounds of insufficient demand. Let's decide before too much bitrot occurs, though. +1 :) +1 We were talking about this on IRC, and I feel that if we'

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] drop if exists remainder

2006-06-07 Thread Josh Berkus
Tom, > > > What's the consensus on this? Nobody else has chimed in, so I'm > > > inclined to do no more on the gounds of insufficient demand. Let's > > > decide before too much bitrot occurs, though. > > > > +1 :) > > +1 We were talking about this on IRC, and I feel that if we're going to do "IF

Re: [HACKERS] [PATCHES] drop if exists remainder

2006-06-07 Thread Robert Treat
On Saturday 04 March 2006 22:24, David Fetter wrote: > On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 03:35:24PM -0500, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > Bruce Momjian wrote: > > >Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: > > > > What's the consensus on this? Nobody else has chimed in, so I'm inclined > > to do no more on the gounds of ins