Thomas Hallgren wrote: > The world is not perfect and I know that you are normally very > restrictive in what is back-patched from head into bug-fix branches. The > 8.1.4 release however, did introduce a problem. You changed the API > function inv_open() with the comment "Revise large-object access > routines to avoid running with CurrentMemoryContext". > > This change will force me to a) introduce patch level sensitive > conditionals in the code, and b) have two PostgreSQL 8.1.n compatible > releases of PL/Java. One where n < 4 and another where n >= 4. I would > like to avoid this in the future if possible. API's should remain stable > during patch releases. > > Having said that, I've been in the game long enough to know that Utopia > doesn't exist. You probably had a very good reason to break the > compatibility.
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