On Thu, Jul 9, 2026 at 5:43 PM Jacob Champion < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2026 at 2:19 PM Andrew Dunstan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Freeze the parsing of old-style files; new features and changes go only > in the new format. This should eliminate (well, almost eliminate) the > maintenance burden associated with having two file formats. > > > > That's the scenario Tom warned against upthread. > > But if, hypothetically, a new format were indeed a big improvement for > people, it's probably what we should do. > > > I think the bar is going to be fairly high. And just jumping to a new format is going to create a world of pain for users. We'd need to carry the old format for a while as well, I think, and also provide some conversion tools. I do agree that sometimes the formats can make expressiveness very clumsy. A recent example is the log_min_messages work.
