Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
>> IMHO that's the single most important task of a review.
> Really? I'd say the most important task for a review is "does the patch
> do what it says it does?". That is, if the patch is supposed to
> implement feature X, does it actually? If it's a performance patch,
> does performance actually improve?
> If the patch doesn't implement what it's supposed to, who cares what the
> code looks like?
But even before that, you have to ask whether what it's supposed to do
is something we want.
regards, tom lane