From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: josh@agliodbs.com
Cc: pgsql-docs@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Avoiding upgrade backlash
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 00:47:27 -0500
Message-ID: <10223.1195278447@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200711162107.17437.josh@agliodbs.com>
References: <200711152000.lAFK08911889@momjian.us>
<200711162107.17437.josh@agliodbs.com>
Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
> Hmmm. I don't feel like it contains a clear warning, though. We need a
> statement like:
> Some users may encounter issues upgrading due to the changes in handling
> data type casts. If you suspect that your schema or application may not
> be handling data type comparisons cleanly, you are strongly urged to test
> for casting error messages before upgrading your production server.
When have we ever suggested that people *shouldn't* test their apps
before committing to a major version update?
I think the whole thing has been significantly overblown. We have made
incompatible changes bigger than this one --- and, often, harder to find
let alone fix --- in almost every major release. This one you can at
least be pretty sure that you will get an error, and not a silent change
in behavior, if you fall foul of it.
regards, tom lane
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