Re: Wanted: jsonb on-disk representation documentation

On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>wrote:

> On 2014-05-07 08:50:33 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> > On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 7:40 AM, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
> wrote:
> > > I don't think it's likely that beta1 will be binary compatible with the
> > > final version at this point.
> >
> > I rather think we're not ready for beta1 at this point (but I expect
> > to lose that argument).
>
> Well, I guess it depends on what we define 'beta1' to be. Imo evaluating
> problematic pieces of new code, locating unfinished pieces is part of
> that. I don't see much point in forbidding incompatible changes in beta1
> personally. That robs th the development cycle of the only period where
> users can actually test the new version in a halfway sane manner and
> report back with things that apparently broken.
>
>
We need to be very careful to tell people about it though. Preferrably if
we *know* a dump/reload will be needed to go beta1->beta2, we should
actually document that in the releasenotes of beta1 already. So people can
make proper plans..

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