Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: > However, there's a difference between making a query silently given > different results, and breaking it completely forcing the user to > re-study how to write it. I think the latter is better. In that light > we should just drop attnum as a column name, and use something else: > maybe (attidnum, attlognum, attphysnum). So all queries in the wild > would be forced to be updated, but we would not silently change > semantics instead.
Hm. I'm on board with renaming like that inside the backend, but I'm very much less excited about forcibly breaking client queries. I think there is little if any client-side code that will care about either attidnum or attphysnum, so forcing people to think about it will just create make-work. 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