David Fetter wrote:
> > Odds are that the patch submitters will not understand enough to
> > know how to modify pg_migrator, but just knowing something broke is
> > usually enough for the hackers group to find a fix.
>
> This is a pretty serious drawback. If we're going to require that
> people send migration scripts when they change the on-disk format,
> this needs to be easy. The program, whatever it turns out to be,
> needs to take composable changes which people would submit along with
> their patch, just as they do docs.
>
> How much refactoring of pg_migrator would such a change take? Would
> it be worthwhile to do that, or just start a different project?
I have no idea what you are thinking. pg_migrator is in C just like the
backend code. Do you want some plugin module to do migrations? I have
neither the time or desire to implement that.
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