Christian G. Warden wrote:
On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 02:26:39PM +0100, Paul J Stevens wrote:
Christian G. Warden wrote:
I'm finally getting around to upgrading an old pre-2.0 installation of
DBMail. According to the wiki[1], the DBMail 2.0 Debian packages
contain the table prefix patch, but I just downloaded the source package
and I don't see it in there. Am I missing something?
The prefix patch was merged with the 2.0 codebase sometime ago already.
On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 03:30:03PM +0200, Paul J Stevens wrote:
Robert,
Mmm, the 2.1 codebase allows setting the table prefix at runtime. But that
patch didn't make it into the 2.0 codebase.
The latter message is correct, right? No configurable table prefixes in
2.0, neither cvs/svn nor the Debian packages?
I specifically checked today. I was wrong the first time around. But I also
don't see any reference to debian packages containing the prefix patch, not on
the wiki and not on the dbmail.org site... Maybe I'm not looking at the right
places.
There is currently no runtime setting of the prefix for dbmail tables in 2.0.
The table prefix was introduced during the 2.0rc series. It was a schema change
that was disruptive for the userbase. As such it was a mistake that was
corrected by making the table prefix a runtime setting, but that change did not
go into the branch for 2.0 which was by that time in release-critical bugfix
deepfreeze whathaveyou.
Ancient politics. Lessons hopefully learned.
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