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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Posting to hackers and patches lists
Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 10:17:53 -0400
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Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> writes:
> I think it would be helpful for us to provide an infrastructure where
> people who don't run their own servers to store their patches at a
> stable URL where they can keep updating the content.  I did that with
> the psql wrap patch and it helped me.

Actually, I find that that is a truly awful habit and I wish that people
would *not* do it that way.  There are two reasons why not:

* no permanent archive of the submitted patch

* reviewer won't know if the submitter changes the patch after he
downloads a copy, and in fact nobody will ever know unless the submitter
takes the time to compare the eventual commit to what he thinks the
patch is

			regards, tom lane

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