Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To:
Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc:
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>,
Ned Lilly <ned(at)greatbridge(dot)com>, Jan Wieck <janwieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>,
PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> > What part of "no new features in bug-fix releases" is giving people
> > trouble?
>
> Interesting observation here: the key developers seem to be much more
> exercised about this than the rest of the community. Counting core
> members and Peter we have three "no" and one "yes", whereas as best
> I recall the votes from the rest of pghackers are about 6 to 1 in
> favor.
>
> Make of that what you will --- but I'm going to yield the point,
> since the non-core sentiment seems to be very clear.
One final analysis of this. If Jan had come to the list and explained
the problem, and suggested adding something to /contrib for 7.0.3, I
think most people would have said OK.
My guess is that many of the negative votes are based on the way this
was handled. I know I think about how this was handled and get upset
myself.
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