Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> >> Don't you ever run the tests before checking stuff in?
>
> > ... Nope. I do it once a batch is checked in. I assume submitters have
> > already done it. Too much work.
>
> Whether or not you assume that the submitter ran regress tests, it's
> unsafe to assume that a several-days-old patch is still good against
> current CVS tip. Especially not when you get merge failures, as you
> certainly must have in this case.
Proper patch testing requires initdb and regression tests. I do those
at the end of a batch of patches, not for each one.
If you want to agitate that there are problems with my patch
application, go ahead.
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