| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>, Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, Marti Raudsepp <marti(at)juffo(dot)org>, peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: renaming contrib. (was multi-platform, multi-locale regression tests) |
| Date: | 2010-11-11 00:51:06 |
| Message-ID: | AANLkTin8LFWVmL=KLsORWYUvjFO4abjy1++QX2rNXgZ1@mail.gmail.com |
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On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 7:01 PM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
> The current name causes constant confusion. It's a significant misnomer, and
> leads people to distrust the code. There might be reasons not to change, but
> you should at least recognize why the suggestion is being made.
Is it your position that contrib code is as well-vetted as core code?
>> (And no, don't you dare breathe a word about git making that
>> all automagically better. I have enough back-patching experience with
>> git by now to be unimpressed; in fact, I notice that its rename-tracking
>> feature falls over entirely when trying to back-patch further than 8.3.
>> Apparently there's some hardwired limit on the number of files it can
>> cope with.)
>
> That's very sad. Did you file a bug?
It's intentional behavior. It gives up when there are too many
differences to avoid being slow.
--
Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
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