On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 7:01 PM, Andrew Dunstan <and...@dunslane.net> wrote:
> The current name causes constant confusion. It's a significant misnomer, and
> leads people to distrust the code. There might be reasons not to change, but
> you should at least recognize why the suggestion is being made.

Is it your position that contrib code is as well-vetted as core code?

>>  (And no, don't you dare breathe a word about git making that
>> all automagically better.  I have enough back-patching experience with
>> git by now to be unimpressed; in fact, I notice that its rename-tracking
>> feature falls over entirely when trying to back-patch further than 8.3.
>> Apparently there's some hardwired limit on the number of files it can
>> cope with.)
>
> That's very sad. Did you file a bug?

It's intentional behavior.  It gives up when there are too many
differences to avoid being slow.

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Robert Haas
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