Robert Haas wrote: > Sorry. I spent a lot of time for both CommitFest 2008-11 and > CommitFest 2009-07 in the hopes of getting something committable, and > I wasn't successful. I'm just at the end of my rope. It seems fairly > clear that Tom isn't going to commit any piece of SE-PostgreSQL at > all, ever. So who's going to do it? It doesn't make any sense to > continue trucking along with this patch into the indefinite future if > it has no hope of being committed. > > Frankly, I think this comes down to money. There are several > PostgreSQL companies which employ very capable PostgreSQL committers. > When someone is willing to pony up enough money to get those people > interested (as, I gather, has happened with block-checksumming) then > this will happen. Until then, I don't believe anyone is going to > volunteer to be responsible for a 10,000-line patch in their free > time. Tom is the only one crazy enough for that, and he said no.
I have offered to review/commit the patch. I don't promise my effort will be pretty, but I will get the job done. I have not started yet because I think we are still unclear if the feature is worth the additional code maintenance. I frankly think the patch should be thought of as the SE-Linux-specific directory files, which KaiGai can maintain, and the other parts, which I think I can handle. > The next time someone submits a huge, unsolicited patch to do > ANYTHING, we should do them a favor and tell them this up front, > rather than a year and a half later. Then they could have the > appropriate conversations with the appropriate people and determine > whether to budget for it or give up. What has happened with this > patch has not served KaiGai well, or improved the image of this > community. Yes, this has not been our finest hour. :-( I think the causes have been explained already: o early patches did not have community buy-in o we are unclear about the size of the user community o we are unclear what the end user will want o the feature is complex o the features is in an unfamiliar problem-domain -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> 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 (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers