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

From Dave Page
Subject Re: Prepping to break every past release...
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Msg-id 937d27e10903041301x3580b8d1g281c3ac040075dc2@mail.gmail.com
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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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On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 8:32 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> 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 assume you'll be putting in the weeks/months of work required to fix
pgAdmin & phpPgAdmin which would be far better spent on new features
than uglifying the code in far nastier ways than the current state of
the catalogs?

-- 
Dave Page
EnterpriseDB UK:   http://www.enterprisedb.com


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