Re: Alpha releases: How to tag - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Alpha releases: How to tag
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Msg-id 200908080350.n783okw08471@momjian.us
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In response to Re: Alpha releases: How to tag  (David Fetter <david@fetter.org>)
Responses Re: Alpha releases: How to tag  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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David Fetter wrote:
> > Odds are that the patch submitters will not understand enough to
> > know how to modify pg_migrator, but just knowing something broke is
> > usually enough for the hackers group to find a fix.
> 
> This is a pretty serious drawback.  If we're going to require that
> people send migration scripts when they change the on-disk format,
> this needs to be easy.  The program, whatever it turns out to be,
> needs to take composable changes which people would submit along with
> their patch, just as they do docs.
> 
> How much refactoring of pg_migrator would such a change take?  Would
> it be worthwhile to do that, or just start a different project?

I have no idea what you are thinking. pg_migrator is in C just like the
backend code.  Do you want some plugin module to do migrations?  I have
neither the time or desire to implement that.

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