Kevin Grittner wrote: > Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Define "make that date"? That is the problem. > > Not committed by that date. I guess that leaves the issue of picking > a particular time in a particular time zone, but it doesn't otherwise > seem ambiguous. > > Picture the New York Subway system. You're coming down the stairs and > the train is in sight. You either make it through the doors before > they close, or you don't. If you don't, you wait for the next train. > The system would never work if they held up the train for everyone in > sight of the train who hoped to get on to avoid the wait. Nobody is > throwing their weight around when those doors close; it's just how the > system works.
The problem is that the committers control the commit date, but the one seen as punished for a rejected patch is not the committers but the submitter. -- Bruce Momjian <[email protected]> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
