On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 21:01 +0000, Dave Page wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 8:32 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > 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.
>
> I assume you'll be putting in the weeks/months of work required to fix
> pgAdmin & phpPgAdmin which would be far better spent on new features
> than uglifying the code in far nastier ways than the current state of
> the catalogs?
*Shrug* long term consistency is the better choice.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
>
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