On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 09:50:25AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > +1. Complexity has increased, and we are actually never at 100% sure
> > that a given bug fix does not have side effects on other things, hence
> > I think that a portion of this technical debt is the lack of
> > regression test coverage, for both existing features and platforms
> > (like Windows). The thing is that complexity has increased, but for
> > example for many features we lack test coverage, thinking mainly
> > replication-related stuff here. Of course we will never get to a level
> > of 100% of confidence with just the test coverage and the buildfarm,
> > but we should at least try to get closer to such a goal.
>
> FYI, I realize that one additional thing that has discouraged code
> reorganization is the additional backpatch overhead. I think we now
> need to accept that our reorganization-adverse approach might have cost
> us some reliability, and that reorganization is going to add work to
> backpatching.
Actually, code reorganization in HEAD might cause backpatching to be
more buggy, reducing reliability --- obviously we need to have a
discussion about that.
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