Pavel Borisov <pashkin.elfe@gmail.com> writes:
> IMO the fact that people struggle to work on patches, and make them better,
> etc. is an immense blessing for the Postgres community. Is the peak of
> commits really a big problem provided we have 6 months before actual
> release? I doubt March patches tend to be worse than the November ones.
Yes, it's a problem, and yes the average quality of last-minute
patches is visibly worse than that of patches committed in a less
hasty fashion. We have been through this every year for the last
couple decades, seems like, and we keep re-learning that lesson
the hard way. I'm just distressed at our utter failure to learn
from experience.
regards, tom lane