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To: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Cursors and backwards scans and SCROLL
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From: Doug McNaught <doug@mcnaught.org>
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"Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:

> 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.

-Doug