Re: Prepping to break every past release...

On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 12:32 -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

> 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 agree strongly with your general point.

The most consistent negative feedback I receive about Postgres is that
we make minor changes from release to release that make it extremely
difficult to upgrade without re-testing the applications. So we write
great software, then make it difficult for people to upgrade to it.

-- Simon Riggs           www.2ndQuadrant.comPostgreSQL Training, Services and Support