Re: [HACKERS] API changes in patch release

2006-05-23 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Magnus Hagander wrote: I don't think any of us realized the change would affect third-party projects. To help specifically PL/Java next time, is there any chance to get it included in the buildfarm builds? If it had been there, it would've been caught right away... Currently buildf

Re: [HACKERS] API changes in patch release

2006-05-23 Thread Magnus Hagander
> > 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 >

Re: [HACKERS] API changes in patch release

2006-05-23 Thread Bruce Momjian
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 acc

[HACKERS] API changes in patch release

2006-05-23 Thread Thomas Hallgren
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