Re: Patches split from 7.3 queue

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > The tree will get farther and farther out of sync with these patches,
> > making patch application harder as time goes on.
>
> Agreed, we cannot wait indefinitely.
>
> > If no one can look at them in one week, I question whether a few more
> > weeks will make any difference.
>
> Personally, I'm under a deadline for some internal Red Hat work, so
> this is not a good week to ask me to review stuff.

Oh, I didn't realize that. That is a good argument to extend it,
certainly.

> It might be best to bounce all the pending patches back to the
> submitters, and ask them to resubmit whatever they think is the
> latest version. Particularly with the jdbc stuff, I think some
> of that got applied already. Also, for stuff that is already
> out of date (and some of it is!), it seems better to distribute
> the update/merge work instead of putting it all on your shoulders.

I will let the jdbc people chew on it. They are very good at
evaluating the jdbc stuff at this point. Let's see what's left after a
week. Peter's email to me sliced through a chunk of it already.

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