On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 9:05 PM, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 9:30 PM, Josh Berkus <j...@agliodbs.com> wrote: >> http://pgolub.wordpress.com/2012/06/22/backward-compatibility-never-heard-of-it >> >> If we had stable system views for all database objects (stable as in we >> just append to them), then refactoring our system tables wouldn't break >> things for our users. Just sayin'. > > This has been discussed before, and I'm still not buying it. I mean, > suppose you wrote code that depended on anything stated in a > constraint always being true. Then we added deferrable constraints. > Oops. But would you rather NOT have that feature? Appending columns > doesn't help in that case. >
also the incompatibility in the case of tablespaces was a "good" one... i saw cases where the link was manually moved to another place... and don't ask, don't know why they do this... so something reading the spclocation would have been misleading -- Jaime Casanova www.2ndQuadrant.com Professional PostgreSQL: Soporte 24x7 y capacitación -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
