Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Add missing optimizer hooks for function cost and number of rows.

On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> sriggs@postgresql.org (Simon Riggs) writes:
>> Log Message:
>> -----------
>> Add missing optimizer hooks for function cost and number of rows.
>> Closely follow design of other optimizer hooks: if hook exists
>> retrieve value from plugin; if still not set then get from cache.
>
> What exactly are we doing adding new features without discussion (or
> documentation, or known use cases) at this stage of the release cycle?

I'm confused, too.  It seems like there have been a LOT of patches
this week that were not posted to or discussed on -hackers.  I thought
that was not within the ground rules.

...Robert