Re: procpid?

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On tis, 2011-06-14 at 13:50 -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> > There are real problems with the idea of having one release where we
> > break everything that we want to break - mostly from a process
> > standpoint. We aren't always good at being organized and disciplined,
> > and coming up with a multi-year plan to break everything all at once
> > in 2014 for release in 2015 may be difficult, because it requires a
> > consensus on release management to hold together for years, and
> > sometimes we can't even manage "days".
>
> I have had this fantasy of a break-everything release for a long time as
> well, but frankly, experience from other projects such as Python 3, Perl
> 6, KDE 4, Samba 4, add-yours-here, indicates that such things might not
> work out so well.
>
> OK, some of those were rewrites as well as interface changes, but the
> effect visible to the end user is mostly the same.

Funny you mentioned Perl 6 because I just blogged about that:

http://momjian.us/main/blogs/pgblog/2011.html#June_14_2011

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