Re: Rename Function: pg_postmaster_start_time

From: Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>
To: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Maiquel Grassi <grassi(at)hotmail(dot)com(dot)br>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Rename Function: pg_postmaster_start_time
Date: 2024-11-06 00:28:35
Message-ID: Zyq4M5SY1KEraxml@paquier.xyz
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On Tue, Nov 05, 2024 at 12:05:11PM -0700, David G. Johnston wrote:
> The ease or difficulty of making the change in the server has no meaningful
> bearing on whether breaking this public API is warranted or not.

This function has this name since 600da67fbe5e back from 2008.
Changing that 16 years later will break things.
--
Michael

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