Re: [PATCHES] drop if exists remainder

Josh Berkus wrote:
> 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.  
>   

Yeah. true. Although, I must say that I discovered very early on in my 
pg-hacking experience that unless you read -patches too you don't really 
know what's going on ;-)

> 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.
>
>   

Fair point. Maybe I only posted on -patches.

cheers

andrew