Re: what to revert

On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 9:58 AM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> As its committer, I tend to agree about reverting that feature.  Craig
> was just posting some more patches, and I have the pg_recvlogical
> changes here (--endpos) which after some testing are not quite looking
> ready to go -- plus we still have to write the actual Perl test scripts
> that would use it.  Taken together, this is now looking to me a bit
> rushed, so I prefer to cut my losses here and revert the patch so that
> we can revisit it for 9.7.

I think it's a positive development that we can take this attitude to
reverting patches. It should not be seen as a big personal failure,
because it isn't. Stigmatizing reverts incentivizes behavior that
leads to bad outcomes.

-- 
Peter Geoghegan