> > The current macaddr datatype needs to be kept for some time by renaming > it without changing OID and use the newer one for further usage. >
>From the point of view of a driver maintainer... Npgsql looks up data types by their name - upon first connection to a database it queries pg_type and maps its internal data type handlers based on name. This allows it to avoid hardcoding data type OIDs in source code, and easily handle user-defined data types as well (enums, composites...). So a sudden rename of a datatype would definitely cause a problem. Of course it's possible to first check the server version and act accordingly but it seems to complicate things needlessly.
