Re: Open items list for 8.1

On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
>>> fix ALTER SCHEMA RENAME for sequence dependency, or remove feature
>>
>> I've posted a proposed patch to fix this. The patch requires an initdb
>> (to add new sequence functions), so if we do that we may as well also
>> fix the 32/64bit risk mentioned here:
>> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-09/msg01241.php
>>
>> Also, the floor seems open to discuss whether or not to revert the file
>> access functions to their pre-beta2 APIs. I've got mixed feelings about
>> that myself, but you can certainly make a case that the current
>> definitions are not enough cleaner than what was there before to justify
>> changing. This seems particularly true for pg_cancel_backend(), which
>> already was in the core in 8.0.
>
> I am thinking we should keep things as they are now.

The problem isn't whether or not they should be changed, the problem is
that they were changed *during* beta AND *against* the direction that
discussion on these changes went ... pre-beta would have been more
acceptable, but pre-feature freeze would have been much preferred ... but
*post-beta*, this should never have happened unless it created a critical
bug, which I have seen no arguments that it did ...

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