From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Prepping to break every past release... |
Date: | 2009-03-04 21:35:07 |
Message-ID: | 1236202507.18420.67.camel@jd-laptop.pragmaticzealot.org |
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On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 16:28 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > 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.
>
> > It seems to me that the best method would be to follow the
> > information_schema naming conventions as information_schema is standard
> > compliant (right?).
>
> This isn't happening. Don't waste our time suggesting it.
I wasn't try to waste anyone's time. I thought doing things correctly
was a goal of this project. Sorry for the noise.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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