To: "Robert Haas" <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
cc: "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre@commandprompt.com>,
	"Simon Riggs" <simon@2ndquadrant.com>,
	"Andrew Dunstan" <andrew@dunslane.net>,
	pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] Infrastructure changes for recovery 
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Comments: In-reply-to "Robert Haas" <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
	message dated "Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:46:28 -0400"
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:05:45 -0400
Message-ID: <14677.1223391945@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

"Robert Haas" <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>>> 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.
>> 
>> This is one of the problems that DVCSs are supposed to solve ... have
>> you tried Git?

> I think the other problem here is that the difficulty of getting the
> patch landed increases more than linearly with its size.

Yeah.  Tools aren't really the key problem there IMHO.

I agree with Simon that it would be a good thing if this patch got
landed before he went on to the next part.  But personally I'm a bit
burned out from commitfest and am not eager to go take a third look
at the patch right now.  Does anyone else want to review it?

			regards, tom lane