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		emilsedgh on Feb 10, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PostgreSQL used fsync incorrectly for 20 years It's not at simple as that. The patch author does the "initial" work. But then it's up to the team to learn the patch, understand it and keep maintaining it. Every line of code is baggage. If there is no demand for something at the time, it makes sense for maintainers to reject that. It's up to them to maintain that patch from now on.

ospider on Feb 11, 2019 | [–]

There is another scenario, I submitted a Pull Request to a OSS project, the authors discussed it and rejected it and then implemented it in the exact same way as I did. That was hurtful.

darkerside on Feb 11, 2019 | [–]

I can't upvote your comment for some reason, but exactly this

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