Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 10:39 AM Joe Conway <m...@joeconway.com> wrote: >> scanint8() is exported, and this change breaks at least two extensions I >> maintain.
> 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. Yeah, this seems well within our expectations for major-release changes. regards, tom lane