Re: pre-MED

From: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com>, Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)krosing(dot)net>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pre-MED
Date: 2008-12-15 17:12:45
Message-ID: 20081215171245.GA25872@fetter.org
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On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 08:50:25AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> writes:
> > Tom,
>
> > I know you've been busy with lots of stuff, so here's a little
> > reminder. I talked with a couple of people who know the back-end
> > much better than I do. One said the above was way
> > under-specified, and the other said he'd started work on it, but
> > hasn't had much time.
>
> > Since you're the one who brought this up, I think it's on you to
> > flesh it out at least a little bit, or at least to describe it in
> > enough detail that someone else could.
>
> I'm sorry, but I have far too much work in front of me reviewing
> patches that have a chance of getting into 8.4. I do not have time
> to do pre-implementation research for a patch that doesn't.

You took on the responsibility by rejecting the working patch and
saying how it should be implemented. That you failed to respond when
asked before is very strictly your problem to solve, and I don't mean
by bouncing my useful feature.

Regards,
David.
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