On Thursday 11 December 2008 01:20:42 pm Christoph Zwerschke wrote:
> johnf schrieb:
> > Setting the retrieveal of the system fields to false may not be the best.
> > There are plenty of 7.4 coders that depend on those fields.  I don't but
> > when I googled 7.4 code I still see it as a requirement.  When I added
> > schema's I set the system tables to False and I can't recall anyone
> > actually saying anything.   Maybe we do it and wait for any complaints.
>
> Yes, I don't think anybody wants to use system fields such as "xmin" or
> "xmax" (transaction ids) as a data field in a form. 
> The only field that 
> was sometimes used is "oid", and I do not hide this, even with
> includeSystemFields=False. And you can still add system fields manually.
>
  

> > We are not going to drop 7.4.  The Postgres guys are still supporting the
> > version with updates.  What about setting up a bracket around 7.4 stuff?
>
> Ok, currently there is no real issue with 7.4 anyway. I have just tested
> dabo on Pg 7.3, and even that worked (after declaring create_series).
>
> -- Christoph

I agree but.  The fields that were being used were xmin and xmax.  Most of the 
code I saw had to do with transactions.  So I left them in.  Anyway lets drop 
them as a default and see what happens. 

7.3 great!  At least we can test older systems now.  Is this 7.3 yours?



-- 
John Fabiani


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