On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 12:34 AM, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
>> > Ripping it out and replacing it monolithically will not
>> > change that; it will only make the detailed history harder to
>> > reconstruct, and I *will* want to reconstruct it.
>>
>> What's something that might happen six months from now and lead you to inspect
>> master or 9.5 multixact.c between 4f627f8 and its revert?
>
> "Hey, what has happened to multixact.c lately? I'm investigating a bug,
> and I wonder if it already has been fixed?", "Uh, what was the problem
> with that earlier large commit?", "Hey, what has changed between beta2
> and the final release?"...
Quite.
I can't believe we're still having this silly discussion. Can we please move on?
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Peter Geoghegan