Re: Triaging the remaining open commitfest items

On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 11:28:33PM +0200, Andres Freund wrote:
> On 2015-05-14 17:10:29 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > FWIW, I did go look at this patch, and concluded it was not close enough
> > to ready to try to squeeze it in now.  (I think Andres isn't convinced
> > of that yet, but time grows short, and I quite agree with Robert that
> > committing almost-ready patches at this stage of the game is a bad idea.)
> 
> I think if there's any patch that deserves some leeway it's this
> one. It's been been forced into a limbo for nearly half a year; without
> leaving Andrew many options.
> 
> I've removed the use of GroupedVars and Andrew is right now working on
> structural changes. I'm not ready at this point to make a judgement.

I will call for a vote that the freeze deadline be changed if this patch
is rejected to due to time.  I might lose the vote, but I am going to
try because if we lose our reputation for fairness, we have lost a lot
more than a week/month of release time.

--  Bruce Momjian          http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB                             http://enterprisedb.com
 + Everyone has their own god. +