| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Ken Johanson <pg-user(at)kensystem(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Is PG a moving target? |
| Date: | 2008-02-09 18:32:50 |
| Message-ID: | 20080209103250.036fcb4b@jd-laptop |
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On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 10:20:51 -0700
Ken Johanson <pg-user(at)kensystem(dot)com> wrote:
> I acknowledge that from time to time we must accept changes in the
> 3rd party software that will break our apps if we (or customers) ever
> upgrade them (a compounded issue if we have heavily-used deployments
> in the field and not just in-house ones to maintain).
>
> But given the recent and dramatic example of 8.3's on-by-default
> stricter typing in functions (now not-autocasting), I worry that kind
> of change could happen in every minor version (8.4 etc).
8.4 is a major release. 8.3.1 would be a minor release.
Joshua D. Drake
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