Re: [HACKERS] Happy column dropping
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Don Baccus <dhogaza@pacifier.com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org>
Date: 2000-01-25T16:35:20Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> At 11:41 AM 1/25/00 +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > >On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Don Baccus wrote: > > > >> Dropping constraints on a table just because you drop a column is > >> just butt-ugly. > > > >Hey, nobody said that this was the final version. Keeping the constraints > >was a trivial step from what there was. I guess the lesson I learned was > >that around here you Release Late, Release Rarely, and that's fine, but I > >didn't know that. Sorry. -> next time ;) > > Yes, I've thought about this and as I mentioned in another note a few > minutes ago, realize now that you believed that to be the release model. > > I now understand why you were willing to dump a change like this into > the sources a few days before a planned beta release. Perfectly > reasonable under the more agressive release early, release often > model. Maybe I have to get that into the developers FAQ. -- Bruce Momjian | http://www.op.net/~candle pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000 + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026