| From: | "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> |
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| To: | "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Gavin Sherry" <swm(at)linuxworld(dot)com(dot)au> |
| Cc: | "Neil Conway" <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, "PostgreSQL Patches" <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: fix broken regression tests |
| Date: | 2003-01-16 01:14:07 |
| Message-ID: | GNELIHDDFBOCMGBFGEFOMEAJCFAA.chriskl@familyhealth.com.au |
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> Plan B would be to go the other way --- sed 's/parse error/syntax error/'
> --- so as to get consistent results from all post-1.50 Bisons. However
> I am concerned that this will needlessly break client-side code.
> (If you grep for 'parse error' in our sources you will find it a lot
> more places than just the regression tests Neil originally fingered;
> and that's not even counting the code that now lives on gborg.)
We've given people enough backwards-compatibility pain for one lifetime -
keep it as parse error...
Chris
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