Re: [PATCHES] Custom variable class segmentation fault

Tom Lane wrote:
> I've always found it easier to review uncommitted patches than committed
> ones anyway.  When you're playing catch-up by reviewing a committed
> patch, you have to deal with three states of the code rather than two
> (pre-patch, post-patch, your own mods).  That gets rapidly worse if the
> patch has been in there awhile and other changes go in on top of it.
> Plus, once other changes accumulate on top, it becomes extremely painful
> to revert if the conclusion is that the patch is completely broken.
> (A conclusion that I don't think is at all unlikely with respect to
> this patch.)
>
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>   

Easy or not this strikes me as good policy. And nothing is urgent quite 
yet - we still have another 18 days to the end of the month, which is 
the stated deadline for getting patches reviewed and committed.

cheers

andrew