From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>
Cc: Jon Nelson <jnelson+pgsql@jamponi.net>
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Subject: Re: [PERFORM] typoed column name, but postgres didn't grump
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 20:24:54 -0400
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On Oct 29, 2010, at 5:53 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> Yeah, I think we're going to have to live with it, at least for 8.4. One could make an argument that 9.0 is new enough we could get away with a small behavior change to avoid a large amount of user confusion. But that may be a self-serving argument based on wanting to tamp down the bug reports rather than a wisely considered policy decision... so I'm not sure I quite buy it.
>
> Well, tamping down the bug reports is good from the users' point of view
> too.
>
> The argument for not changing it in the back branches is that there
> might be someone depending on the 8.4/9.0 behavior. However, that seems
> moderately unlikely. Also, if we wait, that just increases the chances
> that someone will come to depend on it, and then have a problem when
> they migrate to 9.1. I think the "risk of breakage" argument has a lot
> more force when considering long-standing behaviors than things we just
> recently introduced.
I'm not entirely sure that a behavior we released well over a year ago can be considered "just recently introduced"...
...Robert
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