"Greg Smith" <gsmith@gregsmith.com> writes:
> On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, KaiGai Kohei wrote:
>
>> I'll submit the proposal of SE-PostgreSQL patches again, because some of previous
>> messages are filtered due to attachment and I cannot provide whole of patches yet.
>
> This is actually what you should have done from the beginning. And it only
> should have gone to the pgsql-hackers list, which is the only one I'm replying
> to. Your patches are at this point a proposal, as you say in the subject, and
> those go to the pgsql-hackers list with the minimum of files necessary to
> support them. pgsql-patches is generally aimed at patches that have already
> been discussed on the hackers list, ones that are basically ready to apply to
> the source code.
Some people shout any time you send patches to -hackers. For the -patches is
there mainly to catch large attachments regardless of their maturity.
But it's true that it's best to post a plan and have discussion prior to
developing big patches.
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