Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-27 Thread Tom Lane
Oleg Bartunov o...@sai.msu.su writes: I and Teodor have several small, but useful patches for text search: ... We would like to have your opinion what to do with these patches - leave them for 8.5 or provide them to hackers to review for 8.4. I think the general consensus is that these were

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-26 Thread Robert Treat
On Wednesday 25 March 2009 23:17:41 Robert Haas wrote: With respect to this item: Disable appending of the epoch date/time when '%' escapes are missing in log_filename (Robert Haas) I might suggest explaining it this way: This change makes it easier to use PostgreSQL in conjunction with an

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-26 Thread Bruce Momjian
Robert Haas wrote: OK, I am all wet. I now understand why the editing is the time-consuming part of this job. On the plus side it is probably possible to parallelize it to some degree by splitting the list into N pieces after the remove insignificant items step. With respect to this item:

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-26 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: Robert Haas robertmh...@gmail.com writes: OK, I am all wet. I now understand why the editing is the time-consuming part of this job. On the plus side it is probably possible to parallelize it to some degree by splitting the list into N pieces after the remove

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-26 Thread Bruce Momjian
Josh Berkus wrote: All, In any case, the release notes aren't normally a bottleneck. I still think that Bruce had his priorities out of whack in not cleaning up his open-items list before doing this. If he had done so, nobody would have noticed how long the notes took. Yes,

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-26 Thread Bruce Momjian
Tom Lane wrote: Josh Berkus j...@agliodbs.com writes: Yes, although Bruce *has* asked for help in cleaning up the open-items list. I spent several hours on that on Saturday, and more or less got the bird in response... the way Bruce has that page set up, only he can do any actual item

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-26 Thread Robert Haas
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Bruce Momjian br...@momjian.us wrote: Josh Berkus wrote: All, In any case, the release notes aren't normally a bottleneck.  I still think that Bruce had his priorities out of whack in not cleaning up his open-items list before doing this.  If he had done

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-26 Thread Bruce Momjian
Robert Haas wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Bruce Momjian br...@momjian.us wrote: Josh Berkus wrote: All, In any case, the release notes aren't normally a bottleneck. ?I still think that Bruce had his priorities out of whack in not cleaning up his open-items list before

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-26 Thread Bruce Momjian
Robert Haas wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Bruce Momjian br...@momjian.us wrote: Josh Berkus wrote: All, In any case, the release notes aren't normally a bottleneck. ?I still think that Bruce had his priorities out of whack in not cleaning up his open-items list before

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-26 Thread Bruce Momjian
Robert Haas wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 9:28 PM, Bruce Momjian br...@momjian.us wrote: At this point I think we are just trying to get a list of items that need to be done before we can release beta. ?Very little, if anything, should be getting added to that list at this point. You

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-26 Thread Robert Haas
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 9:35 PM, Bruce Momjian br...@momjian.us wrote: Robert Haas wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Bruce Momjian br...@momjian.us wrote: Josh Berkus wrote: All, In any case, the release notes aren't normally a bottleneck. ?I still think that Bruce had his

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-26 Thread Bruce Momjian
Robert Haas wrote: On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Bruce Momjian br...@momjian.us wrote: Tom Lane wrote: Robert Haas robertmh...@gmail.com writes: OK, I am all wet. ?I now understand why the editing is the time-consuming part of this job. ?On the plus side it is probably possible to

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-26 Thread Robert Haas
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 9:28 PM, Bruce Momjian br...@momjian.us wrote: At this point I think we are just trying to get a list of items that need to be done before we can release beta.  Very little, if anything, should be getting added to that list at this point. You can say that, but things

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-26 Thread Robert Haas
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Bruce Momjian br...@momjian.us wrote: Tom Lane wrote: Robert Haas robertmh...@gmail.com writes: OK, I am all wet.  I now understand why the editing is the time-consuming part of this job.  On the plus side it is probably possible to parallelize it to some

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-25 Thread Bruce Momjian
David E. Wheeler wrote: On Mar 24, 2009, at 9:41 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote: So far taking the CVS logs and making a list of only the items we want for the release notes took one day; researching and rewording the items so they are ready for the release notes took five days; grouping

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-25 Thread Robert Haas
OK, I am all wet. I now understand why the editing is the time-consuming part of this job. On the plus side it is probably possible to parallelize it to some degree by splitting the list into N pieces after the remove insignificant items step. With respect to this item: Disable appending of the

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-25 Thread Tom Lane
Robert Haas robertmh...@gmail.com writes: OK, I am all wet. I now understand why the editing is the time-consuming part of this job. On the plus side it is probably possible to parallelize it to some degree by splitting the list into N pieces after the remove insignificant items step. The

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-25 Thread Josh Berkus
All, In any case, the release notes aren't normally a bottleneck. I still think that Bruce had his priorities out of whack in not cleaning up his open-items list before doing this. If he had done so, nobody would have noticed how long the notes took. Yes, although Bruce *has* asked for help

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-25 Thread Tom Lane
Josh Berkus j...@agliodbs.com writes: Yes, although Bruce *has* asked for help in cleaning up the open-items list. I spent several hours on that on Saturday, and more or less got the bird in response... the way Bruce has that page set up, only he can do any actual item removal, the rest of us

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-24 Thread Bruce Momjian
Robert Haas wrote: On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Joshua D. Drake j...@commandprompt.com wrote: Robert, ?this has been discussed many times before, and most people agree with you, but Bruce doesn't. I think the ony way this will change is if someone takes on the role of release

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-24 Thread David E. Wheeler
On Mar 24, 2009, at 9:41 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote: So far taking the CVS logs and making a list of only the items we want for the release notes took one day; researching and rewording the items so they are ready for the release notes took five days; grouping them into sections and

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-21 Thread Robert Haas
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:59 PM, Bruce Momjian br...@momjian.us wrote: Robert Haas wrote: I personally think that the way pgsql-hackers organizes itself using email is completely insane.  The only reason that you need to write the release notes instead of, say, me, is because the only

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-21 Thread Bruce Momjian
Robert Haas wrote: Oh, I'm not objecting to email as a way of communicating. I think a bug tracking system or web forums would increase the amount of effort required to keep up to date on what is going on, and I can't imagine what the corresponding advantage would be. What I don't like is

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-21 Thread Robert Treat
On Saturday 21 March 2009 09:04:12 Robert Haas wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:59 PM, Bruce Momjian br...@momjian.us wrote: Robert Haas wrote: snip My concern with the list of outstanding items for 8.4 based on a quick look is that I think many of those things are not, in fact, outstanding

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-21 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Sat, 2009-03-21 at 12:02 -0400, Robert Treat wrote: On Saturday 21 March 2009 09:04:12 Robert Haas wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:59 PM, Bruce Momjian br...@momjian.us wrote: Robert Haas wrote: snip My concern with the list of outstanding items for 8.4 based on a quick look is

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-21 Thread Robert Haas
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Joshua D. Drake j...@commandprompt.com wrote: Robert,  this has been discussed many times before, and most people agree with you, but Bruce doesn't. I think the ony way this will change is if someone takes on the role of release notes manager, subscrbes to

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-20 Thread Robert Treat
On Tuesday 17 March 2009 09:38:59 Bruce Momjian wrote: You are assuming that only commit-fest work is required to get us to beta. You might remember the long list of open items I faced in January that I have whittled down, but I still have about twenty left. I think part of the perception of

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-20 Thread Bruce Momjian
Robert Treat wrote: On Tuesday 17 March 2009 09:38:59 Bruce Momjian wrote: You are assuming that only commit-fest work is required to get us to beta. You might remember the long list of open items I faced in January that I have whittled down, but I still have about twenty left. I

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-20 Thread David Fetter
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 09:38:59AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: Robert Haas wrote: Well, we have been working on stuff for the past month so it was not like we were waiting on SE-PG to move forward. Stuff related to the CommitFest? AFAICS, the only committer who has done any

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-20 Thread Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian br...@momjian.us writes: Robert Treat wrote: ... Perhaps we need to take a fresh look at your list of twenty things and see what can be delegated out to others. Yep, I agree. The problem is that last time I put out a list that wasn't clensed I got a lot of compaints so I

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-20 Thread Robert Haas
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Bruce Momjian br...@momjian.us wrote: Robert Treat wrote: On Tuesday 17 March 2009 09:38:59 Bruce Momjian wrote: You are assuming that only commit-fest work is required to get us to beta.  You might remember the long list of open items I faced in January

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-20 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
Robert Haas wrote: Similarly, the only reason we don't have a workable TODO list is because you're attempting to extract it from a disorganized jumble of email after the fact, instead of maintaining it publicly and adding and removing items along the way. It might be slightly more work to think

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-20 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Robert Haas escribió: I personally think that the way pgsql-hackers organizes itself using email is completely insane. Note that during the 8.4 timeframe we've stolen a lot of work from Bruce. The TODO list was moved to the wiki, for one; the patch queue was also moved to the wiki. Now the

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-20 Thread Bruce Momjian
This is about the reaction I expected, and is again so far off the mark that I will just continue doing what I think is best. Why doesn't someone offer to take my mbox file and generate a list from that? --- Robert Haas

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-20 Thread Bruce Momjian
Alvaro Herrera wrote: Robert Haas escribi?: I personally think that the way pgsql-hackers organizes itself using email is completely insane. Note that during the 8.4 timeframe we've stolen a lot of work from Bruce. The TODO list was moved to the wiki, for one; the patch queue was also

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-20 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Bruce Momjian escribió: Alvaro Herrera wrote: Note that during the 8.4 timeframe we've stolen a lot of work from Bruce. The TODO list was moved to the wiki, for one; the patch queue was also moved to the wiki. Now the FAQ has moved to wiki (and has already seen lots of improvement, so

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-20 Thread Bruce Momjian
Alvaro Herrera wrote: Bruce Momjian escribi?: Alvaro Herrera wrote: Note that during the 8.4 timeframe we've stolen a lot of work from Bruce. The TODO list was moved to the wiki, for one; the patch queue was also moved to the wiki. Now the FAQ has moved to wiki (and has already

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-20 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Bruce Momjian escribió: Alvaro Herrera wrote: Bruce Momjian escribi?: We do have an alternative open items list, http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PostgreSQL_8.4_Open_Items However, it's incomplete. It is a bit sad that nobody can complete it, because Bruce has taken pgpatches

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-20 Thread Bruce Momjian
Alvaro Herrera wrote: Bruce Momjian escribi?: Alvaro Herrera wrote: Bruce Momjian escribi?: We do have an alternative open items list, http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PostgreSQL_8.4_Open_Items However, it's incomplete. It is a bit sad that nobody can complete it,

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-20 Thread Robert Haas
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Heikki Linnakangas heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com wrote: The TODO list is already on the Wiki. I've edited it a few times when I've spotted TODO-worthy ideas on the mailing lists. Well, Bruce and Tom both made reference to something that Bruce was going to

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-20 Thread Robert Haas
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Alvaro Herrera alvhe...@commandprompt.com wrote: I personally think that the way pgsql-hackers organizes itself using email is completely insane. Note that during the 8.4 timeframe we've stolen a lot of work from Bruce.  The TODO list was moved to the wiki, for

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-20 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Robert Haas escribió: I don't even understand why we're interested in doing this. If the patches weren't important enough for someone to add them to the CommitFest wiki in October, why are we delaying the release to hunt for them in March? The problem is not patches that were not committed,

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-20 Thread Robert Haas
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Bruce Momjian br...@momjian.us wrote: This is about the reaction I expected, and is again so far off the mark that I will just continue doing what I think is best. Would you like to explain WHY it's off the mark? Why doesn't someone offer to take my mbox file

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-20 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Robert Haas escribió: On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Alvaro Herrera alvhe...@commandprompt.com wrote: Robert Haas escribió: I don't even understand why we're interested in doing this.  If the patches weren't important enough for someone to add them to the CommitFest wiki in October,

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-20 Thread Robert Haas
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Alvaro Herrera alvhe...@commandprompt.com wrote: Robert Haas escribió: On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Alvaro Herrera alvhe...@commandprompt.com wrote: Robert Haas escribió: I don't even understand why we're interested in doing this.  If the patches

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-20 Thread Bruce Momjian
Robert Haas wrote: Of course, if this list is radically incomplete, then it doesn't help much, but does anyone think that's the case? We don't know -- Bruce's list may contain something, but since it's hidden we can't do anything. ?Maybe it is all already-completed items, or redundant

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-20 Thread Robert Haas
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Bruce Momjian br...@momjian.us wrote: I did offer to post my mbox file so people could see what I have as open 8.4 items, but the no complaining requirement seems to have eliminated volunteers. IIRC, the biggest problem we had last time (apart from the

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-20 Thread Bruce Momjian
Robert Haas wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Bruce Momjian br...@momjian.us wrote: I did offer to post my mbox file so people could see what I have as open 8.4 items, but the no complaining requirement seems to have eliminated volunteers. IIRC, the biggest problem we had last time

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-20 Thread Robert Haas
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Bruce Momjian br...@momjian.us wrote: You can use my emails to make a master list --- there is no need to make mine the master. OK, good enough. Can you post a link to the raw mbox file? ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-20 Thread Bruce Momjian
Robert Haas wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Bruce Momjian br...@momjian.us wrote: You can use my emails to make a master list --- there is no need to make mine the master. OK, good enough. Can you post a link to the raw mbox file? OK, done:

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-20 Thread Robert Haas
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Bruce Momjian br...@momjian.us wrote: Robert Haas wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Bruce Momjian br...@momjian.us wrote: You can use my emails to make a master list --- there is no need to make mine the master. OK, good enough.  Can you post a link

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-20 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 16:03 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Bruce Momjian br...@momjian.us wrote: Robert Haas wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Bruce Momjian br...@momjian.us wrote: You can use my emails to make a master list --- there is no need to make

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-20 Thread Robert Haas
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Joshua D. Drake j...@commandprompt.com wrote: On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 16:03 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Bruce Momjian br...@momjian.us wrote: Robert Haas wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Bruce Momjian br...@momjian.us

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-20 Thread Robert Haas
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Alvaro Herrera alvhe...@commandprompt.com wrote: Robert Haas escribió: I don't even understand why we're interested in doing this.  If the patches weren't important enough for someone to add them to the CommitFest wiki in October, why are we delaying the

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-20 Thread Bruce Momjian
Alvaro Herrera wrote: Bruce Momjian escribi?: Alvaro Herrera wrote: Note that during the 8.4 timeframe we've stolen a lot of work from Bruce. The TODO list was moved to the wiki, for one; the patch queue was also moved to the wiki. Now the FAQ has moved to wiki (and has already

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-20 Thread Bruce Momjian
Robert Haas wrote: I personally think that the way pgsql-hackers organizes itself using email is completely insane. The only reason that you need to write the release notes instead of, say, me, is because the only information on what needs to go into them is buried in a thicket of CVS commit

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-18 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On Tuesday 17 March 2009 18:00:57 Robert Haas wrote: Basically, for the project to grow, it needs more committers, and the precondition for being added as a committer should be a promise to spend a certain amount of time reviewing and committing patches other than your own. According to the

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-17 Thread Bruce Momjian
Robert Haas wrote: Well, we have been working on stuff for the past month so it was not like we were waiting on SE-PG to move forward. Stuff related to the CommitFest? AFAICS, the only committer who has done any significant review or committing of patches in the last month is Heikki,

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-17 Thread Robert Haas
You are assuming that only commit-fest work is required to get us to beta.  You might remember the long list of open items I faced in January that I have whittled down, but I still have about twenty left. Tom has done work fixing optimizer bugs introduced in 8.4.  I have had EnterpriseDB

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-17 Thread Bruce Momjian
Robert Haas wrote: You are assuming that only commit-fest work is required to get us to beta. ?You might remember the long list of open items I faced in January that I have whittled down, but I still have about twenty left. Tom has done work fixing optimizer bugs introduced in 8.4. ?I

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-17 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
It's not like my opinion has any weight but still, On Tuesday 17 March 2009 16:15:21 Robert Haas wrote: either make the release happen on time, or we can get all of the patches reviewed, but we can only do both if the committers have the time and energy to make that happen. Do you disagree?

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-17 Thread Robert Haas
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Bruce Momjian br...@momjian.us wrote: Robert Haas wrote: You are assuming that only commit-fest work is required to get us to beta. ?You might remember the long list of open items I faced in January that I have whittled down, but I still have about twenty

[HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-16 Thread Oleg Bartunov
Hi there, I and Teodor have several small, but useful patches for text search: 1. Support of filtering dictionaries and unaccent dictionary/function. This is often requested feature, which solves, for example, problem with correct headlines for text with accents. See example and docs

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-16 Thread Gregory Stark
Oleg Bartunov o...@sai.msu.su writes: We would like to have your opinion what to do with these patches - leave them for 8.5 or provide them to hackers to review for 8.4. In theory 8.5, though you wouldn't be the first to start sneaking in late commits and given how long before the release I

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-16 Thread Tom Lane
Gregory Stark st...@enterprisedb.com writes: I think it's clear that stretching feature freezes is a failed policy. Yeah, it's the same old same old --- once again, we've bent over backwards to try to accommodate large patches at the end of a development cycle. I'm not sure that that's ever

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-16 Thread Greg Stark
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote:  I'm not sure that that's ever going to stop, because every time there are people cheerleading for said patches and insisting that the release will be so much better if we wait for them. Well 8.3 was better for having HOT.

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-16 Thread David E. Wheeler
On Mar 16, 2009, at 1:41 PM, Tom Lane wrote: A saner policy would mandate that large patches land near the start of a development cycle, but I don't know how we get people to do that. I think that if you can strictly time-limit the final CommitFest in the same way that you time-limit the

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-16 Thread David Fetter
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 04:41:29PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: Gregory Stark st...@enterprisedb.com writes: I think it's clear that stretching feature freezes is a failed policy. Yeah, it's the same old same old --- once again, we've bent over backwards to try to accommodate large patches at

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-16 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
David E. Wheeler wrote: On Mar 16, 2009, at 1:41 PM, Tom Lane wrote: A saner policy would mandate that large patches land near the start of a development cycle, but I don't know how we get people to do that. I think that if you can strictly time-limit the final CommitFest in the same way

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-16 Thread Dimitri Fontaine
Hi, Le 16 mars 09 à 21:41, Tom Lane a écrit : Gregory Stark st...@enterprisedb.com writes: I think it's clear that stretching feature freezes is a failed policy. A saner policy would mandate that large patches land near the start of a development cycle, but I don't know how we get people to

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-16 Thread Robert Haas
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Heikki Linnakangas heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com wrote: The earlier commitfests were not time-limited either. They lasted until all the patches were dealt with; either committed or bumped to next commit fest. It's just that when you know there still at

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-16 Thread Bruce Momjian
Robert Haas wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Heikki Linnakangas heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com wrote: The earlier commitfests were not time-limited either. They lasted until all the patches were dealt with; either committed or bumped to next commit fest. It's just that when you

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-16 Thread Tom Lane
Heikki Linnakangas heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com writes: The original plan was that anything not 100% ready to commit at the beginning of the last commit fest will be bumped to the next release, and beta would start right after the first commit fest, a week or two after the submission

Re: [HACKERS] small but useful patches for text search

2009-03-16 Thread Robert Haas
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Bruce Momjian br...@momjian.us wrote: Robert Haas wrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Heikki Linnakangas heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com wrote: The earlier commitfests were not time-limited either. They lasted until all the patches were dealt with;