Re: I am being interviewed by OReilly

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Steve Lane <slane(at)fmpro(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: I am being interviewed by OReilly
Date: 2002-07-08 14:30:34
Message-ID: 17310.1026138634@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Steve Lane <slane(at)fmpro(dot)com> writes:
>> You could make a fair argument that the upcoming 7.3 ought to be
>> called 8.0, because the addition of schema support will break an
>> awful lot of client-side code ;-). But I doubt we will do that.

> Hmm. As it happens, I've written an awful lot of client-side code. Can you
> elaborate on what will break, or point me to a resource that lays it out?

Anything that looks at the system catalogs is likely to have some
trouble; the notion that there is at most one pg_class row named 'foo',
for example, will fall down.

regards, tom lane

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