Re: Getting a move on for 8.2 beta - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: Getting a move on for 8.2 beta
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Msg-id 44F9AD1A.5070802@commandprompt.com
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In response to Re: Getting a move on for 8.2 beta  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Theo Schlossnagle <jesus@omniti.com> writes:
>> Additionally, what problem is accepting incremental patches supposed  
>> to solve?
> 
> Keeping the individual patches reviewable is one useful goal.
> 
> We may be talking at cross-purposes here.  The sort of thing I think
> Alvaro is imagining is something like what I did a year or two back when
> I wanted to make the executor treat plan trees as read-only --- if
> memory serves, I did that in three or four commits spread over a week or
> two. 

To second this, Alvaro is constantly beating our (cmd) other developers 
to do this, so I would guess that you are correct :).

I find also that this method allows someone like me, who can read C and 
understand good parts of it to get the gist of what is going on without 
trying to grok the whole thing. Large patches make it very difficult.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake


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