Hi, On 2019-02-25 09:24:32 -0800, Christophe Pettus wrote: > But the resistance to major version upgrades is *huge*, and I'm > strongly biased against anything that will make that harder. I'm not > sure I'm communicating how big a problem telling many large > installations, "If you move to v12/13/etc., you will have to change > your backup system" is going to be.
I think you might be right about this specific issue. But to me it sounds like you also don't appreciate that development resources are really constrained too, and providing endless backward compatibility for everything is going to use both resources directly, and indirectly by making the whole system more complex. I've been on your side of this fight a couple times (and largely lost), but I think it's important to appreciate that it's all a balancing, and we all have valid reasons to keep the balance between development pace / ease of use / ease of upgrade the way we argue for them. Hard upgrading is going to reduce adoption, but so is lack of feature development and too many creaky & redundant & easy to misuse interfaces. Greetings, Andres Freund
