On 05/03/2016 07:12 PM, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 9:58 AM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>> As its committer, I tend to agree about reverting that feature. Craig
>> was just posting some more patches, and I have the pg_recvlogical
>> changes here (--endpos) which after some testing are not quite looking
>> ready to go -- plus we still have to write the actual Perl test scripts
>> that would use it. Taken together, this is now looking to me a bit
>> rushed, so I prefer to cut my losses here and revert the patch so that
>> we can revisit it for 9.7.
>
> I think it's a positive development that we can take this attitude to
> reverting patches. It should not be seen as a big personal failure,
> because it isn't. Stigmatizing reverts incentivizes behavior that
> leads to bad outcomes.
>
Absolutely +1
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