On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 13:29, Nayib Kiuhan wrote: > It is a good idea to through out an error during the table creation if > the format is not as indicated (now()), because when I created my > tables with the old format, it did not show any problem
I agree that this kind of silent backward-incompatibility isn't good, but I don't think that we can reject 'now' or its variants outright: it's legal syntax, it just doesn't do what you might expect. Since Tom implemented this change, perhaps he can contribute some insight -- Tom, can we improve the upgrade experience in this case? -Neil ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster