Re: pgsql: Remove "convert 'blah' using conversion_name" facility, because - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: pgsql: Remove "convert 'blah' using conversion_name" facility, because
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Msg-id 27766.1190604231@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to pgsql: Remove "convert 'blah' using conversion_name" facility, because  (adunstan@postgresql.org (Andrew Dunstan))
Responses Re: pgsql: Remove "convert 'blah' using conversion_name" facility, because  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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adunstan@postgresql.org (Andrew Dunstan) writes:
> Remove "convert 'blah' using conversion_name" facility, because if it
> produces text it is an encoding hole and if not it's incompatible
> with the spec, whatever the spec means (which we're not sure about anyway).

It's not critical, but just for future reference, you forgot to bump
catversion here.  Which you should've because adding/removing built-in
functions renders the backend incompatible with the system catalogs.

            regards, tom lane

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