> > because as said, it can be any other language besides C and also
> > the 'AS file' is weird.
>
> This is interesting. It allows us to control the default behavour of
> "C". I would vote to default to 7.0-style when no version is used for
> 7.1, then default to 7.1 style in 7.2 and later. We don't need
> backward C function compatibility for more than one release, I think.
We need the 7.0 style for compatibility with other DB's. Postgres was
"the" pioneer in this area, but similar functionality is now available in other DB's.
I think it would be worthwhile, to at least peek at what Informix and DB/2
does here.
Andreas
