Re: pre-MED

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, 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 18:02:42
Message-ID: 1229364162.6678.101.camel@jd-laptop.pragmaticzealot.org
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On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 09:12 -0800, David Fetter wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 08:50:25AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> writes:
> > > Tom,

> > > 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.
>

As much as I would like to see this feature I believe you are taking the
wrong track here David. Tom certainly has no responsibility to you or
your patch. This is all volunteer.

You catch more flies with honey than with Vinegar.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

> Regards,
> David.
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