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Re: Replacing plpgsql's lexer - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Simon Riggs
Subject Re: Replacing plpgsql's lexer
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Msg-id 1239743192.16396.147.camel@ebony.2ndQuadrant
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In response to Replacing plpgsql's lexer  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 16:37 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Comments, objections, better ideas?

Please, if you do this, make it optional.

Potentially changing the behaviour of thousands of functions just to fix
a rare bug will not endear us to our users. The bug may be something
that people are relying on in some subtle way, ugly as that sounds.

-- Simon Riggs           www.2ndQuadrant.comPostgreSQL Training, Services and Support

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