Dave Page wrote: > On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Heikki Linnakangas > <heikki.linnakan...@enterprisedb.com> wrote: > > >> As Dave Page pointed > >> out, other people have already started designing tools based on CVS > >> HEAD. > > > > Now is the time to decide, before the PostgreSQL beta is out. I understand > > the pain inflicted on tools, but I don't think that's a good reason to not > > change it. People using a beta version of pgAdmin will should understand > > that it's not final yet and there can be small glitches like that. > > It's not about the changes the users see, it's about invalidating the > testing that's been done on the tools & interfaces and requiring last > minute changes to be made followed by re-testing. Because of the > unpredictability of the PostgreSQL release timing, we need to work in > advance of PostgreSQL to ensure tools are going to be ready on release > day, because I'm sure you wouldn't want to delay to allow us to catch > up. For a significant percentage of the users, having a working set of > tools and interfaces with the server release is a essential.
We are having enough trouble getting to beta without having to concern ourselves with what tools are using our API before beta; beta means beta, meaning the interface is stable, but before that, anything can be changed. If tool makers want a stable API before beta, they can ask for that and we can debate it but I am not ready to have every change we make pre-beta go through an API-change discussion. We need to be sure we have an API at beta time that we can live with for years, and having pre-beta tools affect that seems unwise; we have put off API decisions assuming we have until beta to make them right. If we don't have tools by beta release, then so be it; beta will be long enough for sufficient testing before the final release. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
