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

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: Alpha releases: How to tag
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Msg-id 4A7C9E7F.4050009@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: Alpha releases: How to tag  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
Responses Re: Alpha releases: How to tag  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> David Fetter wrote:
>
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> But, are we?
>
>   

I think it's a lot more nebulous than that. At the same time I think the 
days when we can blithely change the on-disk format with hardly a 
thought for migration are over. IOW, there's agreement things have to 
change, but the exact shape of the change is not yet clear (at least to 
me) ;-)

cheers

andrew


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