Re: Prepping to break every past release...

From: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
To: jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Prepping to break every past release...
Date: 2009-03-04 21:01:53
Message-ID: 937d27e10903041301x3580b8d1g281c3ac040075dc2@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 8:32 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> 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 assume you'll be putting in the weeks/months of work required to fix
pgAdmin & phpPgAdmin which would be far better spent on new features
than uglifying the code in far nastier ways than the current state of
the catalogs?

--
Dave Page
EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com

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