Re: [HACKERS] MERGE SQL Statement for PG11

On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 8:51 AM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> This is complete and pretty clean now. 1200 lines of code, plus docs and tests.
>
> I'm expecting to commit this and then come back for the Partitioning &
> RLS later, but will wait a few days for comments and other reviews.

I agree with Peter: that's unacceptable.  You're proposing to commit a
patch that is not only has had only a very limited amount of review
yet but by your own admission is not even complete.  Partitioning and
RLS shouldn't be afterthoughts; they should be in the original patch.
Moreover, the patch should have had meaningful review from people not
involved in writing it, and that is a process that generally takes a
few months or at least several weeks, not a few days.

An argument could be made that this patch is already too late for PG
11, because it's a major feature that was not submitted in relatively
complete form before the beginning of the penultimate CommitFest.  I'm
not going to make that argument, because I believe this patch is
probably sufficiently low-risk that it can be committed between now
and feature freeze without great risk of destabilizing the release.
But committing it without some in-depth review is not the way to get
there.

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Robert Haas
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