Re:

Oliver Elphick wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 22:27, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Dave Page wrote:
> > > > Oh, I thought it was just the permissions that were the
> > > > problem. Can we give them a sed script?
> > >
> > > I guess so. It seems to me that upgrading to 7.3 is going to be the
> > > stuff of nightmares, so my first thought is to try to avoid getting
> > > people to run a 7.3 utility on their 7.x database. It would be nice to
> > > see such a script run on old version dump files - but what else will
> > > break? Oliver has found a couple of things, and I wouldn't be surprised
> > > if my main installation falls over as well. If I get a chance I'll try
> > > it tomorrow.
> >
> > Why can't we do the remapping in the SQL grammar and remove the
> > remapping in 7.4?
>
> Surely you will have to leave the remapping in for the benefit of anyone
> who jumps from <= 7.2 to >= 7.4

Well, our whole goal was to get rid of the opaque thing entirely so I am
not sure if we want to keep that going. In fact, I am not sure it is
even possible to remap opaque because it now is represented by so many
other values.

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