Re: Prepping to break every past release... - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Simon Riggs
Subject Re: Prepping to break every past release...
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Msg-id 1236672645.31880.335.camel@ebony.2ndQuadrant
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In response to Prepping to break every past release...  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
Responses Re: Prepping to break every past release...  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 12:32 -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

> Something that continues to grind my teeth about our software is that we
> are horribly inconsistent with our system catalogs. Now I am fully and
> 100% aware that changing this will break things in user land but I want
> to do it anyway. In order to do that I believe we need to come up with a
> very loud, extremely verbose method of communicating to people that 8.5
> *will* break things. 

I agree strongly with your general point.

The most consistent negative feedback I receive about Postgres is that
we make minor changes from release to release that make it extremely
difficult to upgrade without re-testing the applications. So we write
great software, then make it difficult for people to upgrade to it.

-- Simon Riggs           www.2ndQuadrant.comPostgreSQL Training, Services and Support



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