Re: Cursors and backwards scans and SCROLL - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Christopher Kings-Lynne
Subject Re: Cursors and backwards scans and SCROLL
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Msg-id 011701c2e6ad$69d06170$6500a8c0@fhp.internal
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In response to Cursors and backwards scans and SCROLL  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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> > 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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