Re: PL/PGSQL: Dynamic Record Introspection

Titus von Boxberg wrote:
> Having read the FAQ, it's not clear to me, where the patches go (and when)
> that I would send into this list.
> These are my open questions:
>
> Are the patches applied to HEAD?

It depends on the patch. New features are almost exclusively only
applied to HEAD, whereas patches that fix bugs (with a low chance of
introducing additional regressions) or fix typos in the documentation
are applied to back branches.

> And only Very Important Patches are merged to the current or
> even an older release branch?

Right.

> Main background questions are:
> What else (besides creating and testing the patch myself) can I do to
> alleviate applying (or deciding to apply) the patches?
> Could I expect (and if so in what time frame) the patches to appear in HEAD?
> So at some time I would find my code in a cvs up?

Assuming the patch is accepted, it will eventually be reviewed and
applied by one of the committers. The time frame for doing that depends
on various factors: the size and complexity of the patch, the amount of
review / fixing it needs, the workload of the committers, and the
current stage of the release cycle (we just passed feature freeze for
8.1, so I think most committers are busy with work for the upcoming 8.1
beta release). Unfortunately we can be a bit tardy in applying patches
at times, IMHO.

> How do I know that?

It is standard practice to send email to patch submitters when their
patch has been applied (or alternatively rejected, or a resubmission of
the patch has been requested). You can also read the pgsql-committers
mailing list, which logs all the CVS commits.

-Neil