X-Original-To: pgsql-hackers-postgresql.org@postgresql.org Received: from localhost (wm.hub.org [200.46.204.128]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4738E9FB506 for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2006 12:29:15 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.128]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 49875-02 for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2006 15:29:04 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC2AC9FB505 for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2006 12:29:03 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k82FSw7q003247; Sat, 2 Sep 2006 11:28:58 -0400 (EDT) To: Alvaro Herrera cc: Peter Eisentraut , pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, josh@agliodbs.com, Bruce Momjian Subject: Re: Getting a move on for 8.2 beta In-reply-to: <20060902014835.GB14288@alvh.no-ip.org> References: <200609012225.k81MPwJ02170@momjian.us> <200609011639.42280.josh@agliodbs.com> <26043.1157154656@sss.pgh.pa.us> <200609020209.36483.peter_e@gmx.net> <20060902014835.GB14288@alvh.no-ip.org> Comments: In-reply-to Alvaro Herrera message dated "Fri, 01 Sep 2006 21:48:35 -0400" Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 11:28:58 -0400 Message-ID: <3246.1157210938@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200609/135 X-Sequence-Number: 89664 Alvaro Herrera writes: > Here's a completely novel idea: accept incremental patches. I don't think it's as novel as all that --- personally I've always preferred to tackle large projects incrementally. > I've been bitten by having stuff rejected because there was no immediate > use for them; Maybe you failed to make the larger picture clear. If you'd gotten the pghackers list to agree to some plan like "I want to accomplish X, and to get there I want to do A then B then C", I doubt we'd have rejected a subsequent patch to do A (assuming it doesn't break anything else, of course). regards, tom lane