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

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Prepping to break every past release...
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Msg-id 7175.1236202117@sss.pgh.pa.us
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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...  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
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"Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> writes:
> 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. 

> It seems to me that the best method would be to follow the
> information_schema naming conventions as information_schema is standard
> compliant (right?).

This isn't happening.  Don't waste our time suggesting it.
        regards, tom lane


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