Re: Postgres perl module namespace

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
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 14:26:15
Message-ID: 2269983.1650291975@sss.pgh.pa.us
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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, but could it be sane to back-patch the renaming?

regards, tom lane

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