Re: Is PG a moving target?

From: Vivek Khera <vivek(at)khera(dot)org>
To: Postgres General List <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Is PG a moving target?
Date: 2008-02-11 15:41:16
Message-ID: F8F04D6C-9FD5-48A2-A0F9-6951E60D16CA@khera.org
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On Feb 9, 2008, at 12:20 PM, Ken Johanson wrote:

> 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).

You need to *know* your software if you're using it production. 8.4
is *not* a minor version upgrade; it is a major upgrade. The Postgres
"guarantee" is that nothing will change in behavior on the 8.x branch
for a given x.

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