On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 13:29, Nayib Kiuhan wrote:
> It is a good idea to through out an error during the table creation if
> the format is not as indicated (now()), because when I created my
> tables with the old format, it did not show any problem
I agree that this kind of silent backward-incompatibility isn't good,
but I don't think that we can reject 'now' or its variants outright:
it's legal syntax, it just doesn't do what you might expect.
Since Tom implemented this change, perhaps he can contribute some
insight -- Tom, can we improve the upgrade experience in this case?
-Neil
