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Hacking on PostgreSQL Is Hard

Hacking on PostgreSQL is really hard. I think a lot of people would agree with this statement, not all for the same reasons. Some might poin...

Jakub Wartak also put an enormous amount of time and energy into testing, for which I remain profoundly grateful, and he somehow didn't find those problems, either. And then, if you want to keep being able to commit significant patches, whether your own or someone else's, you have to continue spending at least hundreds and probably over a thousand hours on it, every year, in order to maintain the necessary skill level. I can't count the the number of times that I've been rude to someone in my family because I turned the buildfarm red and had to spend the afternoon, or the evening, fixing it, or often enough, just reverting my ill-considered changes.

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