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From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>
To: Doug McNaught <doug@mcnaught.org>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Subject: Re: Cursors and backwards scans and SCROLL
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 10:33:18 +0800
Message-ID: <011701c2e6ad$69d06170$6500a8c0@fhp.internal> (raw)
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	<m3y93oj6iw.fsf@varsoon.wireboard.com>

> > I'd be in favour of creating whole sets of backwards-compatibility GUC's
> > whenever we break backwards compatibility.
> >
> > eg.
> > use_72_compat = yes
> > use_73_compat = yes
>
> That sounds like a recipe for a maintenance nightmare to me.

We only have to keep them for one major version, say.  eg. 7.3 release would
remove the 71_compat option...

Chris




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