Aidan Van Dyk <aidan@highrise.ca> writes:
> I've often been confused that discussion seem to seamlessly be on either
> -patches, or -hackers. From the understanding I got on the mailing
> list pages (http://archives.postgresql.org/), it seems like -patches is
> supposed to be only for patches, and -hackers for the general
> discussion, issues, features, etc on anything development related.
That's the theory.
> But from observation, it seems like -patches and -hackers are different
> lists of the same thing, except that -patches has a much bigger message
> size limit.
Practice is often different from theory ;-). I don't mind discussion
about a patch on -patches, as long as it's not getting into major design
decisions --- if it does, then the thread should get moved to -hackers,
though that doesn't always happen.
> If not, would it be possible to some how force reply-to of pg-patches to
> -hackers?
No, we aren't going to do that. It wouldn't work anyway; you can't
force people to send messages to one list rather than another, and
the mail list software is surely not bright enough to distinguish
"patch" from "not a patch" on its own.
regards, tom lane