| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> |
| Cc: | Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Sequence dependencies |
| Date: | 2005-10-26 03:15:05 |
| Message-ID: | 1124.1130296505@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> I notice that in the release notes there is a large query that should be
> run if upgrading from prior to 8.1, to ensure that sequence dependencies
> are recorded.
> Should we not just make this part of contrib/adddepend?
No ... this is not an automatic "you surely wanted this" change. It is
a fundamental change in semantics. Probably 95% of users will find it
an improvement, but that's not enough to justify having tools that
automatically screw the other 5%.
(Also, I thought we'd determined that adddepend is unmaintained and
likely broken...)
regards, tom lane
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