On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 02:12:25PM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 2:10 PM, David Fetter <david@fetter.org> wrote:
> > It is precisely this kind of issue that leads me to believe it would
> > be counter-productive to come up with any client-specific hacks.
>
> These definitional issues exist on the server, too, and weren't
> considered early enough there either.
>
> Preventing people from working on the things they care about is not a
> good idea. There is no guarantee they will work on the things you
> care about instead. They may just do nothing.
We have situations where the "fix it in one spot" approach has
resulted in real, serious problems. Try explaining to someone new to
the project why pg_dump and pg_dumpall are separate programs, for
example.
Cheers,
David.
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