Re: Alpha releases: How to tag

On Aug 7, 2009, at 11:50 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:

> David Fetter wrote:
>>> Odds are that the patch submitters will not understand enough to
>>> know how to modify pg_migrator, but just knowing something broke is
>>> usually enough for the hackers group to find a fix.
>>
>> This is a pretty serious drawback.  If we're going to require that
>> people send migration scripts when they change the on-disk format,
>> this needs to be easy.  The program, whatever it turns out to be,
>> needs to take composable changes which people would submit along with
>> their patch, just as they do docs.
>>
>> How much refactoring of pg_migrator would such a change take?  Would
>> it be worthwhile to do that, or just start a different project?
>
> I have no idea what you are thinking. pg_migrator is in C just like  
> the
> backend code.  Do you want some plugin module to do migrations?  I  
> have
> neither the time or desire to implement that.

It seems that it would also negate one of the major benefits of  
pg_migrator, which is that it doesn't require you to rewrite all of  
your data.

...Robert