Re: Triage on old commitfest entries

On 10/5/21 4:29 AM, Stephen Frost wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> * Peter Geoghegan (pg@bowt.ie) wrote:
>> On Sun, Oct 3, 2021 at 1:30 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>> Fair.  My concern here is mostly that we not just keep kicking the
>>> can down the road.  If we see that a patch has been hanging around
>>> this long without reaching commit, we should either kill it or
>>> form a specific plan for how to advance it.
>>
>> Also fair.
>>
>> The pandemic has made the kind of coordination I refer to harder in
>> practice. It's the kind of thing that face to face communication
>> really helps with.
> 
> Entirely agree with this.  Index skip scan is actually *ridiculously*
> useful in terms of an improvement, and we need to get the right people
> together to work on it and get it implemented.  I'd love to see this
> done for v15, in particular.  Who do we need to coordinate getting
> together to make it happen?  I doubt that I'm alone in wanting to make
> this happen and I'd be pretty surprised if we weren't able to bring the
> right folks together this fall to make it a reality.
I don't have the skills to work on either side of this, but I would like
to voice my support in favor of having this feature and I would be happy
to help test it on a user level (as opposed to reviewing code).
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Vik Fearing