On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 09:44:03AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Magnus Hagander wrote: > >> Could the "new style" macros be back-ported to previous releases in case > >> we do this? > > > Yes, Tom and I talked about this. It could appear in the next minor > > release of all branches. > > I don't really see the point of that. Third-party authors who want > their code to be backwards-compatible would do something like > > #ifndef SET_VARLENA_LEN > #define SET_VARLENA_LEN(var,len) (VARATT_SIZEP(var) = (len)) > #endif > > While we could provide this same macro in later updates of the current > release branches, those authors are still going to want to include the > above in their code so as to be able to compile against existing > releases. Therefore there's not really much point in us doing it too.
It'd be a help to those who wouldn't be building against releases with known security issues in them for one ;-) Sure, it's not important or a dealbreaker or so, but it would be convenient. //Magnus ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org