Grzegorz Jaskiewicz <g...@pointblue.com.pl> writes: > Why C89, and not C99 ? Virtually all compilers for last 4 years have/ > had C99 support.
Not everybody is running a compiler released within the last 4 years. The short answer is that C99 doesn't appear to offer enough advantage over C89, *for our purposes*, to justify freezing out older systems. stdbool is a perfect example of an addition that offers precisely zero actual functional improvement. All it would be for us is an additional autoconf headache and portability hazard. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers