Re: contributing patches

I have to dig this up and see if I still have it.

...Robert

-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:bruce@momjian.us]
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 1:05 PM
To: Robert Haas
Cc: Tom Lane; pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] contributing patches


Great, would you please end your truncate patch to the patches email
list?  Thanks.

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Robert Haas wrote:
> > We require that all submissions conform to the Postgres BSD license,
> > but we are not picky about requiring paperwork to prove it.  Just
put
> > the same copyright header into any added files as you see in
existing
> > files.
>
> OK cool.
>
> > Yeah, the core team does not have a lot of bandwidth right now for
> > thinking about 8.4 development.  You don't have to wait for 8.3
> > final release, but probably after the first couple of betas are out
> > would be better than now.  Bear in mind also that any patches
> developed
> > now are likely to have merge problems after the pgindent run that
will
> > occur late in beta --- so you might want to wait till after that
> before
> > starting any large coding effort.
>
> OK.  I wrote a patch to implement the following TODO item, which I
> selected on the basis of the fact that it appeared to be easy:
>
> * %Add a separate TRUNCATE permission
>
>   Currently only the owner can TRUNCATE a table because triggers are
not
>   called, and the table is locked in exclusive mode.
>
> It was easy, so I can update the patch as necessary until it can be
> submitted.
>
> Thanks,
>
> ...Robert
>
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