Received: from perio.unlp.edu.ar (IDENT:root@perio.unlp.edu.ar [163.10.16.2]) by hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA63295; Sun, 10 Oct 1999 13:59:21 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from ser@perio.unlp.edu.ar) Received: from perio.unlp.edu.ar (modem76.way.com.ar [200.41.165.76]) by perio.unlp.edu.ar (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA16406; Sun, 10 Oct 1999 14:59:14 GMT Message-ID: <3800D45F.B8C280F2@perio.unlp.edu.ar> Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 15:01:03 -0300 From: "Sergio A. Kessler" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: PostgreSQL-development CC: PostgreSQL-interfaces Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Next release is 7.0(?) References: <199910091253.IAA10670@candle.pha.pa.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Bruce Momjian wrote: > > Because the next release is going to probably be 7.0, if people have > backward compatability library code that they have been dying to remove, > this is the time for it. > > I don't recommend removing backward compatability with 6.4 or 6.5 > releases, but if you have some code that is hanging around just to be > compatible with 6.1 or earlier, I think it can be removed now. can the commands createuser and destroyuser be renamed to pg_createuser and pg_destroyuser (as pg_dump) adding soft links to preserve backwards compatibility (declaring previous commands deprecated) ? the same can be done for createdb and destroydb ... I think is a much more nice namespace for Postgres wich is important when you have thousands of commands in this times. -- | Sergio A. Kessler http://sak.org.ar -O_O- You can have it Soon, Cheap, and Working; choose *two*.