On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 09:50:25AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > +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.
Actually, code reorganization in HEAD might cause backpatching to be more buggy, reducing reliability --- obviously we need to have a discussion about that. -- 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
