| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Replacing plpgsql's lexer |
| Date: | 2009-04-15 15:53:37 |
| Message-ID: | 1239810817.7840.235.camel@jd-laptop.pragmaticzealot.org |
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On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 11:45 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> > We support back branches for a long time for a reason.
>
> I think that's really the bottom line here. If we insist on new major
> releases always being bug-compatible with prior releases, our ability to
> improve the software will go to zero. The solution we have opted for
> instead is to support back branches for a long time and to avoid making
> that type of change in a back branch.
>
+1
Joshua D. Drake
> regards, tom lane
>
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