On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Dave Page <dp...@pgadmin.org> writes: >> In this case, createdb - however, this particular case is of very >> minor impact to us. My gripe is more on the general issue of being >> potentially forced to add support for a new version and beta test >> tools in the same timeframe that PostgreSQL has for beta. > > I hear you, but really the only way we could promise that would be to > have a period before beta of nothing happening in the core project while > tools authors do their thing. That doesn't seem productive. We're > trying to get some parallelism here, not serialize all the development > and testing.
Agreed - I certainly don't want to see things stand still. I just chatted with Bruce, and we discussed the idea of prioritising patches with API changes in the last commitfest to try to make things as painless as possible. I suggest we discuss this in Ottawa, when we review the whole commitfest idea. -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers