> In hindsight, all these ecpg changes should have been made between beta1
> and beta2 when we have time to deal with the fallout, not right before
> beta1.
>
Or considered new features and held back for 8.4. Not picking on Michael, but the resemblance to the /contrib discussion is striking. Ecpg is another part of core PostgreSQL that lives by slightly different rules.
/Magnus