I have asked Massimo if he is more able to get involved in development.
His reply is attached.  He has submitted a major patch that we need to
discuss as a group.

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> > > > I am submitting this patch for people to review.
> > > > 
> > > > It fixes several problems in the lock manager.  Let me show you how to
> > > > reproduce them.  Try this before applying the patch and you will see the
> > > > old bugs.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > I'm sorry for the delay but I have been very busy in the last weeks.
> > > I have an old patch which does something similar. I have submitted it
> > > and many others to the patches mailing list. Plase have a look at it.
> > 
> > I will certainly check the archives.  I remember a lock debug patch we
> > applied several months ago, but I don't rememeber anything else.  I will
> > find it.
> > 
> > Massimo, you certainly know the code.  It would be nice if you had more
> > time to get involved in the development effort.  I know you send in
> > patches from time to time, but it would be nice if you could be more
> > involved in discussions and fielding bug/feature requests.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Bruce Momjian
> > maillist@candle.pha.pa.us
> > 
> 
> Hi Bruce,
> 
> I'm sorry for the delay in answering your message but I have been forced
> off line for three weeks (forced at home with all the university modems
> unusable).  But also under normal conditions I can usually read my e-mail
> once for week and in I'm in general too busy to follow all the discussions
> in the mailing lists.  For these reasons I can't partecipate actively to
> the postgres developement.  The only thing I can reasonably do is find some
> bugs and submit patches when I need them fixed urgently.


-- 
Bruce Momjian
maillist@candle.pha.pa.us

Sat, 14 Feb 1998 21:27:45 -0500 (EST)
Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Massimo assistance
As people start understanding certain areas of the code, would you
please send in a README file for that directory, so future developers
can be aided by your knowledge of how things work?

I have done README files for the parser and optimizer, but many more
need to be done or added to.

Vadim is adding one to the optimizer/planner about subselects, and
perhaps Massimo can add to the lock README file.  A good README would
have helped me a lot in adding the deadlock detection code.  I had to
figure it out myself instead.

These README's can be added up to the last day of release because they
don't affect the code.

-- 
Bruce Momjian
maillist@candle.pha.pa.us

Sun, 15 Feb 1998 13:05:25 -0500 (EST)
Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Adding README files to source