Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Mon, 17 May 2004, Alvaro Herrera Munoz wrote:
>
> > I have some confidence in that I will be able to deliver it maybe the last
> > week of May. I can only hope, however, that it will not be rejected because
> > it's presented too close to feature freeze.
>
> There is no such thing as "too close to feature freeze", nor has there
> ever been in the past ... other then missing it altogether. Unless there
> are some serious flaws in the implementation, submitting it on May 31st
> would get it in ...it isn't expecting to be rock solid, bug free, that is
> what the beta period is to work out ...
>
> What is expected, though, is that you won't disappear after its committed,
> so that you can fix any bugs reported in a timely manner ...
Not completely true. If a patch needs major rework or the implemention
isn't acceptable, it might be rejected and have to wait --- it has
happened before, and PITR might not make it because the April 1 patch
wasn't an acceptable implementation.
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