Re: procpid?

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Jaime Casanova <jaime(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Jim Nasby <jim(at)nasby(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: procpid?
Date: 2011-06-13 16:19:52
Message-ID: BANLkTinLb=PfdHe9u3UBQNB3DKGEcGp3hQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> +1
>
> If we were going to make changes like this, I'd suggest we save them
> up in a big bag for when we change major version number. Everybody in
> the world thinks that PostgreSQL v8 is compatible across all versions
> (8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4), and it will be same with v9. That way we
> would still have forward progress, but in more sensible sized steps.
> Otherwise we just break the code annually for all the people that
> support us. If we had a more stable environment for tools vendors,
> maybe people wouldn't need to be manually typing procpid anyway...

Amen.

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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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