Re: Prepping to break every past release...

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Prepping to break every past release...
Date: 2009-03-04 20:50:54
Message-ID: 49AEE9AE.5070300@dunslane.net
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Hello,
>
> 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?).
>
> Thoughts?
>

What would be the benefit? Apart from satisfying a passion for consistency?

cheers

andrew

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