| From: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
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| To: | jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com |
| Cc: | Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Prepping to break every past release... |
| Date: | 2009-03-04 21:37:11 |
| Message-ID: | 49AEF487.5030607@hagander.net |
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 21:27 +0000, Dave Page wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 9:23 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>>> It is not easy to say. It is correct to say. I am under no illusion that
>>> this will not be painful. As far as "man weeks of recoding". Sorry, I
>>> know that will be tough.
>> It'll be a complete and utter waste of time, and make a horrible mess
>> of any client code that has to support multiple versions.
>
> No actually it won't. It will make it easier for every product that uses
> 8.5 and above. Sometimes you have to cut the cord.
I think this sounds a lot like another request for a set of system views
with nicer names. That way, there'd be no break with backwards
compatibility, and you could use the easier names if you were on the
newer versions.
//Magnus
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