From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <199805221416.KAA28991@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Revised proposal for libpq and FE/BE protocol changes
To: dg@illustra.com (David Gould)
Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 10:16:49 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: phil@river-bank.demon.co.uk, tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us,
	pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org, pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
In-Reply-To: <9805220700.AA11579@hawk.illustra.com> from "David Gould" at May
	22, 98 00:00:02 am
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> Database customers at least in the commercial world can be incredibly
> conservative. It is not at all uncommon to have large sites running DBMS
> engines that are three major releases (ie, well over three years) old.
> Once they get an app working, they really don't want anything to change.

And, oh yea, we kept database compatability, thanks to Tom Lane.

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