| From: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Erik Rijkers <er(at)xs4all(dot)nl>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Mark Dilger <mark(dot)dilger(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Postgres perl module namespace |
| Date: | 2022-04-18 14:44:29 |
| Message-ID: | 20220418144429.si5dmslz2ek3mi7s@alap3.anarazel.de |
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Hi,
On 2022-04-18 10:26:15 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> > I just, again, tried to backport a test as part of a bugfix. The
> > renaming between 14 and 15 makes that task almost comically harder. The
> > only way I see of dealing with that for the next 5 years is to just
> > never backpatch tests to < 15. Which seems like a bad outcome.
>
> Yeah ...
>
> > Except that it's *way* too late I would argue that this should just
> > straight up be reverted until that aspect is addressed. It's a
> > maintenance nightmare.
>
> I'm not for that
I'm not either, at this point...
> but could it be sane to back-patch the renaming?
That might be the best. But it might not even suffice. There've been
other global refactorings between 14 and 15. E.g. 201a76183e2.
I wonder if we should just backpatch the current PostgreSQL module, but
leave the old stuff around :/.
Greetings,
Andres Freund
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