On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 21:14 +0000, Dave Page wrote: > On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 9:09 PM, Joshua D. Drake <j...@commandprompt.com> > wrote:
> > *Shrug* long term consistency is the better choice. > > Easy to say if you're not one of the people for whom such a change > would mean weeks of recoding, the need to start QA'ing everything from > scratch again and a hideous mess of code to cope with after adding > support for a new version with a different catalog schema. > It is not easy to say. It is correct to say. I am under no illusion that this will not be painful. As far as "man weeks of recoding". Sorry, I know that will be tough. > Besides - what percentage of users ever go anywhere near the > catalogs? I'd guess a fraction of a percent of users, and maybe 1 - 5% > of developers. > Any DBA worth his salt uses system catalogs. Lowering the barrier on uses these catalogs will lead to better and more useful tools as well. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL - XMPP: jdr...@jabber.postgresql.org Consulting, Development, Support, Training 503-667-4564 - http://www.commandprompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company, serving since 1997 -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
