Andrew,
> What happened was that Tom objected to (or at least queried the need
> for) the patch on the grounds that it was bloat that nobody had asked
> for. And when I asked I wasn't exactly deluged with requests to commit,
> so I concluded that it was not generally wanted.
Did you poll on -hackers or on -patches? A *lot* less people read
-patches.
This has been a problem in the past. I'd generally ask that, if a patch
which was discussed on -hackers gets rejected on -patches, that discussion
be brought back to -hackers. Often the people who supported the original
feature are not on -patches and then are unpleasantly surprised when the
feature they though was accepted doesn't show up in the next version.
--
--Josh
Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco