On 3/4/15 5:00 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
>> You can always test the server version number, and you'll have to for
>> the next major release anyway.
>
> That's not really the problem, of course. The problem is you upgrade
> and your app unexpectedly breaks. The complexity of fixing that once
> it's
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 4:11 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> That said, if I understand your test case correctly, this would
> basically be an argument against any semantic corrections in stable
> releases, since user code could expect to continue to work with the
> previous incorrect value.
>
> You
On 3/4/15 12:20 PM, Marko Tiikkaja wrote:
> On 3/4/15 6:19 PM, I wrote:
>> On 3/4/15 5:26 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> It was considered to be a bug fix; more, given the few complaints about
>>> the clearly-broken old behavior, we thought it was a fix that would
>>> affect
>>> few people, and them posit
On 3/4/15 6:19 PM, I wrote:
On 3/4/15 5:26 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
It was considered to be a bug fix; more, given the few complaints about
the clearly-broken old behavior, we thought it was a fix that would affect
few people, and them positively.
Yeah, but these things usually go the other way. "
On 3/4/15 5:26 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
Robert Haas writes:
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 5:53 AM, Marko Tiikkaja wrote:
I'm not sure how changing behavior like this in a minor release was
considered acceptable.
I'm guessing that the fact that it changes behavior in cases like this
wasn't recognized,
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 5:53 AM, Marko Tiikkaja wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Commit 79af9a1d2668c9edc8171f03c39e7fed571eeb98 changed xpath handling
> with regard to namespaces, and it seems to be fixing an actual issue.
> However, it was also backpatched to all branches despite it breaking for
> example code
Robert Haas writes:
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 5:53 AM, Marko Tiikkaja wrote:
>> I'm not sure how changing behavior like this in a minor release was
>> considered acceptable.
> I'm guessing that the fact that it changes behavior in cases like this
> wasn't recognized, but I suppose Peter will hav
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 5:53 AM, Marko Tiikkaja wrote:
> Commit 79af9a1d2668c9edc8171f03c39e7fed571eeb98 changed xpath handling with
> regard to namespaces, and it seems to be fixing an actual issue. However, it
> was also backpatched to all branches despite it breaking for example code
> like thi
Hi,
Commit 79af9a1d2668c9edc8171f03c39e7fed571eeb98 changed xpath handling
with regard to namespaces, and it seems to be fixing an actual issue.
However, it was also backpatched to all branches despite it breaking for
example code like this:
do $$
declare
_x xml;
begin
_x := (xpath('/x:Foo/x
