* Bruce Momjian (bruce@momjian.us) wrote:
> 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.
I'm guessing the vote is core-only, but +1 from me in any case. I fully
agree that this patch has had a serious measure of effort put behind it
from the author and is absolutely a capability we desire and need to
have in core.
I'd be happy to jump in and help tonight or tomorrow, but I don't think
there's much I could really contribute right now beyond my support.
Still, please ping me if there's something I can do.
Thanks!
Stephen