Re: Feature freeze progress report - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Feature freeze progress report
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Msg-id 19572.1178136800@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Feature freeze progress report  (Marc Munro <marc@bloodnok.com>)
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Marc Munro <marc@bloodnok.com> writes:
> On Wed, 2007-02-05 at 08:27 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> The question was rhetorical ... there is no list of "certified sane but
>> unapplied" patches. You are proceeding on the basis of a faulty
>> understanding of how our processes work.

> Why do we need to know the patch is sane?  If it does not apply cleanly
> or causes regression tests to fail, the process would figure that out
> quickly and cheaply.  There is little cost in attempting to apply a
> non-sane patch.

Unless it contains a trojan horse.  I don't think many buildfarm owners
are running the tests inside a sandbox so tight that they don't care
how nasty the code that runs there might be.
        regards, tom lane


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