On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 08:15:38PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote: > On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 11:48 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 10:47:27PM +0200, Andres Freund wrote: > >> So, I think we have built up a lot of technical debt. And very little > >> effort has been made to fix that; and in the cases where people have the > >> reception has often been cool, because refactoring things obviously will > >> destabilize in the short term, even if it fixes problems in the long > >> term. I don't think that's sustainable. > > > > Agreed. > > +1. Complexity has increased, and we are actually never at 100% sure > that a given bug fix does not have side effects on other things, hence > I think that a portion of this technical debt is the lack of > regression test coverage, for both existing features and platforms > (like Windows). The thing is that complexity has increased, but for > example for many features we lack test coverage, thinking mainly > replication-related stuff here. Of course we will never get to a level > of 100% of confidence with just the test coverage and the buildfarm, > but we should at least try to get closer to such a goal.
FYI, I realize that one additional thing that has discouraged code reorganization is the additional backpatch overhead. I think we now need to accept that our reorganization-adverse approach might have cost us some reliability, and that reorganization is going to add work to backpatching. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + Everyone has their own god. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
