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.

Cheers,
D
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