Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>>Thanks, that is what was needed. The author obviously took the patch as
>>far as he could, and we needed to adjust his XXX areas, rather than not
>>apply the patch and have the code drifting.
>>
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>Hmm, is this how we should do things? I mean, should I finish the
>autovacuum parts of my relminxid patch, apply it, and then hope for
>someone to fix the mistaeks? And if we don't see any failure in the
>buildfarm, assume that all is well?
>
>To me this is really the easiest way, but I have a hard time convincing
>myself that I want to have it easy but break things in a way that nobody
>notices. The other day when I typoed a commit to the 8.1 branch I was
>all red in the face. I wonder what will happen if someone points to me
>or Greg as causing major breakage somewhere, just because the patch was
>applied in a hurry without careful review.
>
>
>
I am guilty of a similar recent sin that Tom caught. But, like you, I am
opposed to lessening the stability in the code base, which is something
we should be proud of and guard carefully.
cheers
andrew
