Re: Lets (not) break all the things. Was: [pgsql-advocacy] 9.6 -> 10.0

From: Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Justin Clift <justin(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers Mailing List <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Lets (not) break all the things. Was: [pgsql-advocacy] 9.6 -> 10.0
Date: 2016-04-12 00:52:23
Message-ID: CAMsr+YHB91+cnwbimwD4b9XQUztm5cVnHMY89FRpbfVzXUrZpA@mail.gmail.com
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On 12 April 2016 at 00:39, Justin Clift <justin(at)postgresql(dot)org> wrote:

> Moving over a conversation from the pgsql-advocacy mailing list. In it
> Simon (CC'd) raised the issue of potentially creating a
> backwards-compatibility
> breaking release at some point in the future, to deal with things that
> might have no other solution (my wording).
>
> Relevant part of that thread there for reference:
>
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CANP8+jLtk1NtaJyXc=hAqX=0k+ku4zfavgVBKfs+_sOr9hepNQ@mail.gmail.com
>
> Simon included a short starter list of potentials which might be in
> that category:
>
> * SQL compliant identifiers
> * Remove RULEs
> * Change recovery.conf
> * Change block headers
> * Retire template0, template1
> * Optimise FSM
> * Add heap metapage
> * Alter tuple headers
> et al
>

+

* v4 protocol (feature negotiation, lazy blob fetching, etc)
* retire pg_hba.conf and use SQL access management

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