Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.183]) by developer.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A05D92E0054 for ; Wed, 7 May 2008 13:20:14 -0300 (ADT) Received: from developer.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.183]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 91141-02 for ; Wed, 7 May 2008 13:20:07 -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 12B642E0042 for ; Wed, 7 May 2008 13:20:07 -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 m47GK4VY008589; Wed, 7 May 2008 12:20:04 -0400 (EDT) To: "Matthew T. O'connor" cc: Alex Hunsaker , Bruce Momjian , Brendan Jurd , PostgreSQL-development Subject: Re: Posting to hackers and patches lists In-reply-to: <4821D0A0.8040305@zeut.net> References: <34d269d40805070752g4d578a1fu6acb00fd8e5f774e@mail.gmail.com> <200805071503.m47F3xi10638@momjian.us> <34d269d40805070837q19f1144eu8c316fa1cf6d8780@mail.gmail.com> <4821D0A0.8040305@zeut.net> Comments: In-reply-to "Matthew T. O'connor" message dated "Wed, 07 May 2008 11:54:08 -0400" Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 12:20:04 -0400 Message-ID: <8588.1210177204@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200805/180 X-Sequence-Number: 118179 "Matthew T. O'connor" writes: > Patches are an integral part of the conversation about development, I > think trying to split them up is awkward at best. Do people really > still think that the potential for larger messages is really a problem? Personally I'd be fine with abandoning -patches and just using -hackers. We could try it for awhile, anyway, and go back if it seems worse. > By the way, what is the actual size limit on hackers vs patches. They do have different size limits; we'd have to raise the limit on -hackers if we do this. Marc would know exactly what the limits are. regards, tom lane