On April 5, 2007 09:11 am, David Fetter wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 12:52:06AM -0400, Christopher Browne wrote:
> > I had a chat with Jan about some of the forthcoming changes we're
> > thinking about for the next major version...
> >
> > In general, there's a thought of doing a fairly *enormous* amount of
> > cleanup, falling fundamentally out of the presence of hooks in PG 8.3
> > that will allow Slony-I to work without any of the current catalog
> > corruptions.  The cleanup we're thinking of is of extensive enough
> > nature that it might even be that "version 2.0" would only work with
> > PG 8.3 'and above.'
> >
> > The scope of that, in total, I'll let Jan comment on, so as to allow
> > debate on the merits of that.
> >
> > I'll draw back to a rather smaller, but not unimportant, matter...
> >
> > My position at this point is that dropping the "TABLE ADD KEY" feature
> > is highly desirable.
>
> +1 on dropping it.  This is a case where "helping" people to shoot
> themselves in the foot really isn't helping them.

+1 here.  I think I've already voiced my thougt on this in an earlyer email as 
well. :-)

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