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Re: primary key error message

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-01-22T14:50:54Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On fre, 2010-01-22 at 14:22 +0000, Simon Riggs wrote:
> "Stable software" isn't just software that doesn't break, it requires
> IIABDFI as well.

Yeah, I don't buy that.  That would mean that you can never do
maintenance, refactoring, or polishing.  You basically just wait for the
system to die a death somewhere between unmaintainability and ugliness.