Re: PQnotifies() in 7.3 broken?

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > Greg Copeland wrote:
> >> Is it possible to automate this as part of the build
> >> process so that they get grabbed from some version information during
> >> the build?
>
> > Version bump is one of the few things we do at the start of
> > development.
>
> The real problem here is that major version bump (signifying an
> incompatible API change) is something that must NOT be done in an
> automated, mindless-checklist way. We should have executed the bump
> when we agreed to change PQnotifies' API incompatibly. We screwed up
> on that. I think it's correct to fix the error for 7.3.1 --- but we
> cannot improve on the situation by making some procedural change to
> "always do X at point Y in the release cycle". Sometimes there's
> no substitute for actual thinking :-(

Oh, a major bump. I thought we did major bumps only in cases where a
recompile will _not_ fix the problem, like changing a parameter value to
a function or removing a function or something like that.

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