Hi, Kristian!
On Mar 11, Kristian Nielsen wrote:
> Sergei Golubchik <s...@mysql.com> writes:
>
> >> - Will tend to discourage making desirable changes, as the
> >> procedure becomes more complicated (more work to track versioned
> >> API, less flexibitily in what C++ language constructs can be
> >> used); and there will be the desire to minimize binary
> >> incompatibility.
> >
> > On the opposite, it will be easier to do changes, because versioning
> > will make them safe and we could have old and new versions supported
> > at the same time - that we we can add new features to a service
> > without causing binary incompatibility with the existing plugins.
>
> > That's the direction we want to move (and are moving) in.
>
> Thanks for the info Sergei, that helped quite a bit.
>
> At first I though this could introduce limitations. I am thinking for
> example of a thing like condition pushdown, where storage engine
> plugins essentially have access to the complete item tree. Having to
> wrap everything in item in an abstration layer doesn't seem
> attractive, but now I'm starting to see that it
Still that's what Timour is working on :)
> does not necessarily have to be done that way. In principle under
> WL#3859 we could just publish an API that exposes the item tree and
> bump the version whenever anything changes in the implementation. (of
> course having a cleaner condition pushdown API could be a good thing
> in itself, but the important thing is that the WL#3859 interface is
> flexible and does not restrict anything).
Right.
Regards / Mit vielen Grüßen,
Sergei
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