Message-ID: <473F5886.8040702@commandprompt.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 13:09:26 -0800
From: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
Organization: Command Prompt, Inc.
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To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
CC: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, josh@agliodbs.com, pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Avoiding upgrade backlash
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> writes:
>>>> Honestly, I think you are underestimating this problem.
>>> I fail to see why this is a major problem; and merely asserting that
>>> it is one isn't going to change my mind.  Can you point to something
>>> like a major application that will be broken and can't easily be fixed?
>> SQL-Ledger/LedgerSMB
>>
>> What I find interesting is that I (and Josh) are getting push back and 
>> all we are trying to do is be a little louder about the change.
> 
> Adding extra warnings/notices is not a zero-cost action so there has to
> be justification to do it.  Actually it is near-zero cost to use but not
> zero-cost to our users who have to read it multiple places.  (Think dumb
> product warning labels.)
> 
> What I have done is to move the item up to the top of our
> incompatibilities list in the release notes.  That is near zero cost for
> everyone.
> 

Thank you.

Joshua D. Drake