Moving over a conversation from the pgsql-advocacy mailing list. In it
Simon (CC'd) raised the issue of potentially creating a backwards-compatibility
breaking release at some point in the future, to deal with things that
might have no other solution (my wording).
Relevant part of that thread there for reference:
http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CANP8+jLtk1NtaJyXc=hAqX=0k+ku4zfavgVBKfs+_sOr9hepNQ@mail.gmail.com
Simon included a short starter list of potentials which might be in
that category:
* SQL compliant identifiers * Remove RULEs * Change recovery.conf * Change block headers * Retire template0, template1
*Optimise FSM * Add heap metapage * Alter tuple headers et al
This still is better placed on -hackers though, so lets have the
conversation here to figure out if a "backwards compatibility breaking"
release really is needed or not.
Hopefully we can get it all done without giving users a reason to consider
switching. ;)
Regards and best wishes,
Justin Clift
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