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 ;-)
Actually reading -committers is also a must, because you then know that
something is really going on and it's not just chatter.
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