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.

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