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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Cc: Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: It's June 1; do you know where your release is?
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 10:12:21 -0400
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> I have cleaned up the patch from yesterday slightly, too. I'm wondering 
> how far back we should backpatch all this. This API was actually 
> documented in Perl (just) before 7.4 was released, so in theory the API 
> adjustment should go all the way back. However, in practice it hasn't 
> been a problem until now, and we aren't supporting Windows releases 
> before 8.2, so I think 8.2 is probably the right spot.

My inclination is "backpatch all the way".  Now that we know the problem
is we are failing to adhere to Perl's published API, I bet we could find
some other problems it causes, if we poked into the right nooks and
crannies.  And not just on Windows.

			regards, tom lane



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