Re: what to revert

On 2016-05-03 10:12:51 -0700, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 9:58 AM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> > As its committer, I tend to agree about reverting that feature.  Craig
> > was just posting some more patches, and I have the pg_recvlogical
> > changes here (--endpos) which after some testing are not quite looking
> > ready to go -- plus we still have to write the actual Perl test scripts
> > that would use it.  Taken together, this is now looking to me a bit
> > rushed, so I prefer to cut my losses here and revert the patch so that
> > we can revisit it for 9.7.
> 
> I think it's a positive development that we can take this attitude to
> reverting patches. It should not be seen as a big personal failure,
> because it isn't. Stigmatizing reverts incentivizes behavior that
> leads to bad outcomes.

+1