X-Original-To: pgsql-hackers-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [64.117.224.130]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1E73D1B4E6 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2003 21:31:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([64.117.224.193]) by localhost (neptune.hub.org [64.117.224.130]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 35154-05 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2003 18:31:45 -0300 (ADT) Received: from trolak.mydnsbox2.com (ns1.mydnsbox2.com [207.44.142.118]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD14AD1B520 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2003 18:31:42 -0300 (ADT) Received: from dunslane.net (x.ncshp.org [199.90.235.43]) (authenticated (0 bits)) by trolak.mydnsbox2.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h88LNxl05991 for ; Mon, 8 Sep 2003 16:23:59 -0500 Message-ID: <3F5CF535.6070202@dunslane.net> Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 17:31:33 -0400 From: Andrew Dunstan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Postgresql Hackers Subject: Re: plpgsql doesn't coerce boolean expressions to boolean References: <15403.1063035632@sss.pgh.pa.us> <3F5CAC68.30502@pse-consulting.de> <19042.1063039625@sss.pgh.pa.us> <3F5CC9FE.5030103@dunslane.net> <453.1063052918@sss.pgh.pa.us> In-Reply-To: <453.1063052918@sss.pgh.pa.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at postgresql.org X-Archive-Number: 200309/586 X-Sequence-Number: 43598 Tom Lane wrote: >Andrew Dunstan writes: > > >>What's the practice in deprecating other "features"? >> >> > >We generally don't ;-). Certainly 7.4 contains bigger incompatible >changes than this one, and so have most of our prior releases. > > > I thought I had seen discussions along the lines of "we'll give them one cycle to fix it and then they are shot". It does seem very late in this cycle to make such changes. cheers andrew