David E. Wheeler wrote:
> On Feb 20, 2010, at 11:03 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> >> There is also the "must fix" issue with pg_regress.
> >
> > Why? My pg_regress runs just fine. If you are talking about 3rd party
> > modules, I suggested conditional Makefile rules.
>
> Because you can either make the simple change to pg_regress that
> David Fetter sent yesterday and have things continue to work,
> or you can break a slew of third-party module test suites (and
> possibly modules, as well) and make a lot of other people do a
> lot more work, not to mention email -hackers and ask WTF happened
> because they may well not know.
>
> I think that not changing pg_regress is more work for third-party
> module maintainers *and* more work for the Pg community when
> those maintainers come asking what happened and for advice on
> how to fix it.
Well, I was asking why you labeled it "must fix" rather than "should
fix". I am fine with the pg_regress.c change.
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