On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 10:39 AM Joe Conway <m...@joeconway.com> wrote: > (moving to hackers) > > I guess shame on me for not noticing the thread, but I don't see any > discussion about the potential for breakage to external projects. > > scanint8() is exported, and this change breaks at least two extensions I > maintain. > > A quick scan (no pun intended ;-)) of github shows other potential > breakage, including at least older (still open source) versions of > pglogical.
I don't have a particularly strong view on whether the underlying change was a good idea here, but the breakage you're talking about seems pretty easy to fix, unless I'm missing something? I think it would be a bad idea to make such a change in a minor release without concern for extension breakage, but in a new major release it doesn't seem like a problem to me. -- Robert Haas EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
