Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> ... It's surprisingly easy to hoodwink even
> experienced contributors into thinking that your patch is really,
> really almost done, honest, it just needs a couple more tweaks when in
> fact it's nowhere close. I try not to attribute to bad faith what can
> be explained by incurable optimism, so maybe we just have a lot of
> incurable optimism. But it's doing nobody any good.
The first, and possibly most significant, observation in Brooks' classic
_The Mythical Man-Month_ is: "All programmers are optimists." I don't
think you're going to get rid of the incurable-optimism problem.
Rather, we'd better design around it.
regards, tom lane