2009/10/20 Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us>: > Merlin Moncure <mmonc...@gmail.com> writes: >> How about warning for release before making the big switch? The text >> cast change, while ultimately good, maybe could have been stretched >> out for a release or two...it was painful. I do though absolutely >> think that it was good in the end to not support a compatibility >> option in core. > > As long as we provide a backwards-compatible setting, I don't believe > this change will be a huge deal. The problem with the implicit-casts > business was that there was no reasonable way to provide a control > switch --- the catalog entries were either there or not :-(. So far > as I can tell at the moment, there won't be any large technical cost > to providing a backwards-compatible option for this plpgsql change.
I don't thing, so drop some implicit-casts was huge problem. Somebody could to use Peter's patch, that recreate missing casts. regards Pavel > > 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
