Re: elog cleanup

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Wow, what encouragement!  :-<
>
> Well, I assumed that you generated this patch with the intention of
> applying it promptly.  If it was only a basis for discussion, why'd
> you go to the effort of creating a 100K+ patch that will be stale in
> a few days?  It's certainly not useful to aid the discussion: a ten-line
> statement of what you wanted to do would've been more helpful.  Who's
> going to wade through a 100K patch?

Well, I am making decisions that certain messages to only to the client.
I need people to see those changes.

> In any case, the correct approach would've been to put up a proposal
> on pghackers before doing the work.  You *know* this is going to be
> controversial.  More, if it's not highlighted on pghackers then a
> lot of people will fail to get the word and we'll be having trouble
> with broken patches for a long time to come.

I just sent the summary to hackers.  Haven't seen any comments either
way so far.

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