Re: Protect syscache from bloating with negative cache entries

Hi,

On 2018-07-02 21:50:36 -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2018-Jul-02, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> 
> > Andres suggested back in March (and again privately to me) that given how
> > much this has changed from the original this CF item should be marked
> > Returned With Feedback and the current patchset submitted as a new item.
> > 
> > Does anyone object to that course of action?
> 
> If doing that makes the "CF count" reset back to one for the new
> submission, then I object to that course of action.  If we really
> think this item does not belong into this commitfest, lets punt it to
> the next one.  However, it seems rather strange to do so this early in
> the cycle.  Is there really no small item that could be cherry-picked
> from this series to be committed standalone?

Well, I think it should just have been RWFed last cycle. It got plenty
of feedback. So it doesn't seem that strange to me, not to include it in
the "mop-up" CF? Either way, I don't feel strongly about it, I just know
that I won't have energy for the topic in this CF.

Greetings,

Andres Freund