Re: [HACKERS] Happy column dropping

> At 11:41 AM 1/25/00 +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Don Baccus wrote:
> >
> >> Dropping constraints on a table just because you drop a column is
> >> just butt-ugly.
> >
> >Hey, nobody said that this was the final version. Keeping the constraints
> >was a trivial step from what there was. I guess the lesson I learned was
> >that around here you Release Late, Release Rarely, and that's fine, but I
> >didn't know that. Sorry. -> next time ;)
>
> Yes, I've thought about this and as I mentioned in another note a few
> minutes ago, realize now that you believed that to be the release model.
>
> I now understand why you were willing to dump a change like this into
> the sources a few days before a planned beta release. Perfectly
> reasonable under the more agressive release early, release often
> model.

Maybe I have to get that into the developers FAQ.

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