Re: procpid?

On tis, 2011-06-14 at 13:50 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> There are real problems with the idea of having one release where we
> break everything that we want to break - mostly from a process
> standpoint. We aren't always good at being organized and disciplined,
> and coming up with a multi-year plan to break everything all at once
> in 2014 for release in 2015 may be difficult, because it requires a
> consensus on release management to hold together for years, and
> sometimes we can't even manage "days".

I have had this fantasy of a break-everything release for a long time as
well, but frankly, experience from other projects such as Python 3, Perl
6, KDE 4, Samba 4, add-yours-here, indicates that such things might not
work out so well.

OK, some of those were rewrites as well as interface changes, but the
effect visible to the end user is mostly the same.