Tom,
> Frankly, what we have here is a large patch, with insanely difficult
> correctness requirements, written by a Postgres newbie. If it doesn't
> scare you, you haven't been paying attention. We have a long track
> record of problems with patches written by people who thought they were
> ready to do major backend hacking without having bitten off some smaller
> chunks first.
If that was the case, why didn't you say it 4 months ago? It seems
rather unfair to Kaigai and everyone else who worked on it to be getting
cold feet about the entire concept after several months of debugging.
--Josh Berkus