Re: WIP: Upper planner pathification

On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 3:03 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> So, where to go from here? I'm acutely aware that we're hard up against
> the final 9.6 commitfest, and that we discourage major patches arriving
> so late in a devel cycle. But I simply couldn't get this done any faster.
> I don't really want to hold it over for the 9.7 devel cycle. It's been
> enough trouble maintaining this patch in the face of conflicting commits
> over the last year or so (it's probably still got bugs related to parallel
> query...), and there definitely are conflicting patches in the upcoming
> 'fest. And the lack of this infrastructure is blocking progress on FDWs
> and some other things.
>
> So I'd really like to get this into 9.6. I'm happy to put it into the
> March commitfest if someone will volunteer to review it.

I'll abstain from the question of whether this patch is too late in
coming (but the answer is probably "yes") and instead volunteer to
review it.

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