Re: [PATCHES] drop if exists remainder

Andrew,

> What happened was that Tom objected to (or at least queried the need
> for) the patch on the grounds that it was bloat that nobody had asked
> for. And when I asked I wasn't exactly deluged with requests to commit,
> so I concluded that it was not generally wanted.

Did you poll on -hackers or on -patches?   A *lot* less people read 
-patches.  

This has been a problem in the past.  I'd generally ask that, if a patch 
which was discussed on -hackers gets rejected on -patches, that discussion 
be brought back to -hackers.  Often the people who supported the original 
feature are not on -patches and then are unpleasantly surprised when the 
feature they though was accepted doesn't show up in the next version.

-- 
--Josh

Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco