Re: Prepping to break every past release...

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Bill Moran <wmoran(at)potentialtech(dot)com> wrote:
> In response to Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>:
>
> Don't those folks have to tweak their code with each new release anyway?
> Because those tables are constantly changing?  I know we hit problems
> with the way triggers are stored in 8.3 compared to earlier versions.

pg_trigger.tgenabled changed type in 8.3. That's an extremely rare
kind of change however - for example, triggers havent really changed
since at least 7.3 aside from that.

The sort of change JD seems to be suggesting /could/ involve rewriting
virtually every query in pgAdmin, as well as surrounding code.

> Granted, a sweeping change will necessitate a much larger tweak than
> a few changed columns, but the long-term benefit should be cleaner
> client code.

Only if your app only targets one version of the server.

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Dave Page
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