Re: Prepping to break every past release...

Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Something that continues to grind my teeth about our software is that we
> are horribly inconsistent with our system catalogs. Now I am fully and
> 100% aware that changing this will break things in user land but I want
> to do it anyway. In order to do that I believe we need to come up with a
> very loud, extremely verbose method of communicating to people that 8.5
> *will* break things. 
>
> It seems to me that the best method would be to follow the
> information_schema naming conventions as information_schema is standard
> compliant (right?).
>
> Thoughts?
>   


What would be the benefit? Apart from satisfying a passion for consistency?

cheers

andrew