Re: 8.4 open items list

From: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Subject: Re: 8.4 open items list
Date: 2009-04-02 14:32:13
Message-ID: 937d27e10904020732n14cc6dd8ubf4f8e89b1f5ebb0@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Personally I think the naming decision is close enough to be a coin
> toss, and so either choice is fine with me.  However, I think it is
> Clearly Unacceptable for createdb's switches to be spelled differently
> than the underlying SQL command's options.  So it's not really "let's
> not change this" but "which one do you consider it more important to not
> change"?

In this case, createdb - however, this particular case is of very
minor impact to us. My gripe is more on the general issue of being
potentially forced to add support for a new version and beta test
tools in the same timeframe that PostgreSQL has for beta.

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Dave Page
EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com

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