Re: Alpha releases: How to tag

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Alpha releases: How to tag
Date: 2009-08-08 03:50:46
Message-ID: 200908080350.n783okw08471@momjian.us
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David Fetter wrote:
> > Odds are that the patch submitters will not understand enough to
> > know how to modify pg_migrator, but just knowing something broke is
> > usually enough for the hackers group to find a fix.
>
> This is a pretty serious drawback. If we're going to require that
> people send migration scripts when they change the on-disk format,
> this needs to be easy. The program, whatever it turns out to be,
> needs to take composable changes which people would submit along with
> their patch, just as they do docs.
>
> How much refactoring of pg_migrator would such a change take? Would
> it be worthwhile to do that, or just start a different project?

I have no idea what you are thinking. pg_migrator is in C just like the
backend code. Do you want some plugin module to do migrations? I have
neither the time or desire to implement that.

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