| From: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com |
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| Subject: | Re: Prepping to break every past release... |
| Date: | 2009-03-10 08:10:45 |
| Message-ID: | 1236672645.31880.335.camel@ebony.2ndQuadrant |
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On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 12:32 -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> 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 agree strongly with your general point.
The most consistent negative feedback I receive about Postgres is that
we make minor changes from release to release that make it extremely
difficult to upgrade without re-testing the applications. So we write
great software, then make it difficult for people to upgrade to it.
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Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com
PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support
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