Re: Prepping to break every past release...

On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 16:28 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > 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?).
>
> This isn't happening. Don't waste our time suggesting it.

I wasn't try to waste anyone's time. I thought doing things correctly
was a goal of this project. Sorry for the noise.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

>
> regards, tom lane
>
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