Should you go against your Client? (Was: [thelist] Message Archive -MySQL)

Andy Budd andy at message.uk.com
Wed Jul 30 12:03:42 CDT 2003


I really don't see what the problem is. Add the time stamp. It's not 
gong to have any effect on your client anyway. However if the client 
changes his mind in 6 months time it'll have a huge impact not having 
it in. Plan for future development is what I'd say.



Ed McCarroll wrote:

>> Um, shouldn't you leave this? You Client has expressly said this,
>> and you seem to be proposing to go behind his back against him.
>
> I would advise the client of the pros & cons, then abide by their
> decision.  I have a client who periodically suggests archiving and
> deleting old data, and when I demonstrate that the old data is not
> what's slowing down the system, and point out that they will lose
> immediate access to old order data, they always back off.



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