Re: Prepping to break every past release...

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Prepping to break every past release...
Date: 2009-03-04 21:28:37
Message-ID: 7175.1236202117@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"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.

regards, tom lane

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