On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 17:25, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> writes: >> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 21:59, Josh Berkus <j...@agliodbs.com> wrote: >>> So if we're going to break compatibility, then we could stand to make a >>> little noise about it. > >> We've broken the admin apps in pretty much every single release. And >> they generally don't complain. > > Yeah. Quite honestly, this thread is trying to turn a molehill into a > mountain. I will confidently predict that the really big, nasty change > in 9.1 is the change of default standard_conforming_strings. That's > going to break way more apps than anything else, and possibly in > security-critical ways. Anybody who moves an app onto 9.1 without > testing it is going to suffer big-time.
+(a lot) in fact, I think we should definitely "shout out" more clearly about that one in the release notes. Yes, it's the very first item. But I think it deserves a big fat warning box as well. -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/ -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
