On Dec 5, 2007, at 8:06 PM, Andrew Sullivan wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 04:16:24PM -0500, Vivek Khera wrote:
>>
>> It is exactly this issue which is causing us problems with a Drupal-
>> based web site.  We can't safely replicate it, nor can we safely test
>> and deploy things with source control management.
>
> I'm not sure I understand whether this is a criticism of Drupal, of  
> Slony,
> or not a criticism at all.

It is a criticism of self-modifying code getting in the way of doing  
software (release) engineering the right way[tm].  In this particular  
case, drupal.