On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> +1
>
> If we were going to make changes like this, I'd suggest we save them
> up in a big bag for when we change major version number. Everybody in
> the world thinks that PostgreSQL v8 is compatible across all versions
> (8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4), and it will be same with v9. That way we
> would still have forward progress, but in more sensible sized steps.
> Otherwise we just break the code annually for all the people that
> support us. If we had a more stable environment for tools vendors,
> maybe people wouldn't need to be manually typing procpid anyway...
Amen.
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