From: Phil Thompson <phil@river-bank.demon.co.uk>
To: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Revised proposal for libpq and FE/BE protocol changes
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 18:33:43 +0000
Message-ID: <3548C407.7FDF45A0@river-bank.demon.co.uk> (raw)
References: <199804292303.TAA27447@candle.pha.pa.us>
Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Either way, maintaining
> > support for 1.0 is important as not all of us use libpq and we need time
> > to catch up. Also we don't want to put barriers in the way of companies
> > like Openlink who seem willing to provide support for PostgreSQL in
> > commercial products.
>
> Yes, but there will be a month for people to get their third-part stuff
> changed, and the changes are pretty straight-forward. Having support
> for both in the backend/frontend is going to make that code more
> difficult.
I agree it will be easy enough for most of us, but may be less so for
companies that traditionally don't release often. Although I don't use
Openlink's software and can't comment on whether it's any good (or if
anybody actually uses it), I take it as a compliment to PostgreSQL that
a commercial organisation is willing to provide some support for it.
Not maintaining backwards compatibility for at least some time isn't
going to encourage them to continue that support.
Phil
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