Re: Alpha releases: How to tag

From: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Alpha releases: How to tag
Date: 2009-08-07 21:37:06
Message-ID: 20090807213706.GC25552@fetter.org
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On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 05:32:13PM -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> David Fetter wrote:
>
> > This is a pretty serious drawback. If we're going to require that
> > people send migration scripts when they change the on-disk format,
> > this needs to be easy.
>
> But, are we?

This is an area where we have been sorely lacking and sloppy for
years. Every other RDBMS development team requires it.

Cheers,
David.
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