Re: Patch process? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Joshua Reich
Subject Re: Patch process?
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Msg-id 44BE53EE.8080004@root.net
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In response to Re: Patch process?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Joshua Reich <josh@root.net> writes:
>> Do we have an active maintainer of this code?
> 
> It sounds like you've just acquired that position ;-)

More than happy to take the role.

>> How is it reviewed?
> 
> Same as everything else, pretty much: patches go to pgsql-patches and
> are (supposed to be) reviewed before being committed.  If it's in the
> nature of a new feature rather than a simple bug fix or code cleanup,
> you might want to first start a discussion on pgsql-hackers --- if
> anyone has a better idea about how to do things, it's better to find it
> out before you start coding instead of after you finish.

Ok. I'll keep changes to a minimum; before I add features, I'll discuss 
here.

> Because we're relying so heavily on the buildfarm these days, failing
> regression tests are quite unacceptable.  Adding an ORDER BY might be
> the best solution, or maybe you should just change the expected output
> --- do you understand exactly why the results changed?  As for adding
> more tests, you can within reason --- don't make the running time
> enormous.

Ok. I'll fix the test cases so that everything is hunky dory.

Josh



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