Tom Lane wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
>> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>>> I have added SGML comments to comment out the text that mentions EDB
>>> Advanced Server. Is that enough? Should I remove the text from the
>>> SGML? Should I move it to the bottom of the SGML? Should I remove the
>>> EnterpriseDB Advanced Server checks from the C code too? I don't
>>> remember having to deal with anything like this before, so I am unclear
>>> how to proceed.
>
>> I say remove it. On all accounts.
>
>> There's a fork of postgres for EDB AS, shouldn't there be a fork of
>> pg_upgrade the same way, if it requires special code? The code in
>> community postgresql certainly shouldn't have any EDB AS code in it.
>
> Indeed. Given the (presumably large) delta between EDB's code and ours,
> having to have some delta in pg_upgrade isn't going to make much
> difference for them. I think the community code and docs should
> completely omit any mention of that.
Speaking as the person who has been doing the EDB AS merges recently, I
agree. It was helpful to have that stuff there when it was in pgfoundry,
but now that it's part of the main repository, it just gets in the way.
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