Re: [PATCH] Phrase search ported to 9.6

On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 6:04 AM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> Andreas Joseph Krogh wrote:
>> Which seems to indicate it has received a fair amount of testing and is quite
>> stable.
>> Hopefully it integrates into the 9.6 codebase without too much risk.
>
> Yes, yes, that's all very good, but we're nearing the closure of the 9.6
> development cycle and we only have one commitfest left. If someone had
> lots of community brownie points because of doing lots of reviews of
> other people's patches, they might push their luck by posting this patch
> to the final commitfest. But if that someone didn't, then it wouldn't
> be fair, and if I were the commitfest manager of that commitfest I would
> boot their patch to the 9.7-First commitfest.

Completely agreed. Also, to be frank, these text search patches are
often in need of quite a LOT of work per line compared to some others.
For example, consider the percentage of this patch that is comments.
It's a pretty low percentage. And it's going into surrounding code
that is also very low in comments. Giving this a good review will
take somebody a lot of time, and bringing it up to PostgreSQL's normal
standards will probably take quite a lot of work. I don't understand
why the community should agree to do that for anyone, and as you say,
it's not like PostgresPro is leading the pack in terms of review
contributions. We're not going to get this release out on time if
everybody insists that every patch has to go in.

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