Subject: Re: [PATCHES] Infrastructure changes for recovery
From: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>,
	pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
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Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:27:17 +0100
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On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 10:08 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com> writes:
> > A patch specifically marked as "required for other work" has been
> > delayed by more than 5 weeks on queue and nobody was ever assigned to
> > review it. That was exactly the problem CommitFests were supposed to
> > resolve and from my perspective this is a systemic failure.
> 
> To be blunt...

The bluntness was mine, for which I apologise. The last review uncovered
essential behaviour I was missing, no doubt about that.

I'm just grumpy because I can't see a way to do the
patch-on-patch-on-patch that I'll need to make this all work for Nov 1.
So big patch here we come. But that's just the way it is and I'll stop
honking about it.

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 Simon Riggs           www.2ndQuadrant.com
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