Re: ALTER TABLE ... REPLACE WITH

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 08:55:22PM -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 17:46 -0500, Noah Misch wrote:
> >
> >> I'll go ahead and mark the patch Returned with Feedback.
> >
> > My understanding of the meaning of that is polite rejection. If you do
> > that there is no further author comment and we move to July 2011. That
> > then also rejects your own patch with what you say is an alternative
> > implementation...
> >
> > Is that what you wish? That isn't what I wish, either way. I suggest you
> > mark it Waiting on Author, so we can discuss it further.
> 
> Simon,
> 
> I have no idea what you're talking about here.  It is entirely fitting
> and appropriate to reject a patch the guts of which have not been
> written four days into the final CommitFest.  Doing so does not
> somehow reject Noah's patches, which stand or fall on their own
> merits.

I think Simon was referring to the proof-of-concept sketch I had included with
my review.