On 24 February 2011 22:52, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> wrote:
>> I added a ticket to work on this once we'll have some time.
>
> Why? Nobody ever asked for it before, and there are 101 other things
> that people have asked for that we haven't got to yet! Given the
> current lack of interest, I don't think we should expend the time to
> develop or the additional maintenance burden.
I think that you'd be more inclined to commit this if you knew how
Harald intended to use it. Specifically:
http://2ndquadrant.blogspot.com/2011/03/switchover-for-common-people.html
.
I have taken a look at Guillaume's patch, and it seems reasonable and
straightforward to me.
Apparent demand shouldn't be an overriding consideration when deciding
whether or not a feature is to be developed. Build it and in some
cases, they will come.
Incidentally, why is pgConn::libpqVersion a double, rather than an
integer as returned by PQserverVersion()? Seems brittle, considering
that some incredibly common values cannot be exactly represented as
floating point numbers, such as 0.1 .
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