| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Greg Copeland <greg(at)CopelandConsulting(dot)Net>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Fernando Nasser <fnasser(at)redhat(dot)com>, Lee Kindness <lkindness(at)csl(dot)co(dot)uk>, PostgresSQL Hackers Mailing List <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: PQnotifies() in 7.3 broken? |
| Date: | 2002-12-11 04:02:35 |
| Message-ID: | 8557.1039579355@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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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 :-(
regards, tom lane
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