Re: ALTER TABLE lock strength reduction patch is unsafe

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:43 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:

>> It's not me you block Robert, I'm not actually a user and I will sleep
>> well whatever happens, happy that I tried to resolve this. Users watch
>> and remember.
>
> If you are proposing that I should worry about a posse of angry
> PostgreSQL users hunting me down (or abandoning the product) because I
> agreed with Tom Lane on the necessity of reverting one of your
> patches, then I'm willing to take that chance.  For one thing, there's
> a pretty good chance they'll go after Tom first.  For two things,
> there's at least an outside chance I might be rescued by an
> alternative posse who supports our tradition of putting out high
> quality releases.

Not sure where anger and violence entered the discussion, but a posse
does sound amusing.

If such groups ever met, I'm sure both would support the tradition of
high quality, but I suspect they might define it differently and that
would be the source of the problem. Much like Life of Brian.

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