Re: DROP COLUMN misbehaviour with multiple inheritance

From: "Matthew T(dot) OConnor" <matthew(at)zeut(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: DROP COLUMN misbehaviour with multiple inheritance
Date: 2002-09-12 16:09:34
Message-ID: 200209121209.34668.matthew@zeut.net
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> > The count approach seems definitely the right way, but a check (possibly
> > a slow one) can be probably done without initdb.
>
> We can certainly do the proper fix in 7.4; do we consider this bug
> important enough to do an initdb for 7.3beta2? I don't have a strong
> feeling either way about that.

I think we are too scared of doing initdb during beta...

Initdb during beta should not be evaultated on a per bug basis, but keep a
list of all things that could be fixed and judge if the total of all the
fixes is worth one initdb. Right now off the top of my head I can think of
the split function and this inherited change, are there more?

my two cents...

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