Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.184]) by developer.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AC522E006A for ; Wed, 7 May 2008 11:18:09 -0300 (ADT) Received: from developer.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.184]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 16338-03-4 for ; Wed, 7 May 2008 11:17:51 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (sss.pgh.pa.us [66.207.139.130]) by developer.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55E4F2E0047 for ; Wed, 7 May 2008 11:17:55 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m47EHr7Z006230; Wed, 7 May 2008 10:17:53 -0400 (EDT) To: Bruce Momjian cc: PostgreSQL-development Subject: Re: Posting to hackers and patches lists In-reply-to: <200805071408.m47E8Qt22784@momjian.us> References: <200805071408.m47E8Qt22784@momjian.us> Comments: In-reply-to Bruce Momjian message dated "Wed, 07 May 2008 10:08:26 -0400" Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 10:17:53 -0400 Message-ID: <6229.1210169873@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200805/161 X-Sequence-Number: 118160 Bruce Momjian 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