X-Original-To: pgsql-hackers-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.2]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE990D1B51A for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 04:43:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (neptune.hub.org [200.46.204.2]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 25428-04 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 01:42:48 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss.pgh.pa.us (unknown [192.204.191.242]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3ED1D1B4FE for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 01:42:47 -0300 (ADT) Received: from sss2.sss.pgh.pa.us (tgl@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sss.pgh.pa.us (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id h9M4gfit008620; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 00:42:41 -0400 (EDT) To: Bruce Momjian Cc: Christopher Kings-Lynne , Hackers Subject: Re: 7.4 compatibility question In-reply-to: <200310220431.h9M4VXl20009@candle.pha.pa.us> References: <200310220431.h9M4VXl20009@candle.pha.pa.us> Comments: In-reply-to Bruce Momjian message dated "Wed, 22 Oct 2003 00:31:33 -0400" Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 00:42:41 -0400 Message-ID: <8619.1066797761@sss.pgh.pa.us> From: Tom Lane X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at postgresql.org X-Archive-Number: 200310/1012 X-Sequence-Number: 45694 Bruce Momjian writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> Christopher Kings-Lynne writes: >>> Ah, of course - but what about 'yesterday' and 'tomorrow' - these should >>> also be mentioned in the release notes. >> >> Good point ... not that I think anyone is actually using such a default >> in the field, but the behavior did change ... > It would be pretty strange to use those as a default --- I am not > inclined to mention it in the release notes --- we don't mention every > change, only significant ones. A moment's further thought reveals 'today' as another potentially broken default value, which seems more likely to be used in practice than 'yesterday' or 'tomorrow'. I'm too beat to go digging for other legal inputs, but there may be some... regards, tom lane