| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su>, nikolay(at)samokhvalov(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Proposal: allow installation of any contrib module |
| Date: | 2007-01-25 18:31:22 |
| Message-ID: | 45B8F77A.8070409@commandprompt.com |
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> I don't think two releases from API change to API change is enough -
> postgresql is running larger and larger databases by now and I expect
> people to upgrade less often in the future (and iirc you already said
> something along the lines of recommending such things on occasion to
> your customers too).
> So if you have things in core you really have to provide a stable API
> over a number of releases or in practise - years.
Two releases is approximately 3 years. With the exception of 8.3.
Joshua D. Drake
> And depending on how the API changed it might not even be possible to
> stay backwards compatible so:
>
>> Maybe there isn't a good answer.
>
> Indeed there might not be one ...
>
>
> Stefan
>
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