Re: API changes in patch release - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: API changes in patch release
Date
Msg-id 6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCEA0F9B8@algol.sollentuna.se
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In response to API changes in patch release  (Thomas Hallgren <thomas@tada.se>)
Responses Re: API changes in patch release
List pgsql-hackers
> > This change will force me to a) introduce patch level sensitive
> > conditionals in the code, and b) have two PostgreSQL 8.1.n
> compatible
> > releases of PL/Java. One where n < 4 and another where n >=
> 4. I would
> > like to avoid this in the future if possible. API's should remain
> > stable during patch releases.
> >
> > Having said that, I've been in the game long enough to know that
> > Utopia doesn't exist. You probably had a very good reason
> to break the
> > compatibility.
>
> I don't think any of us realized the change would affect
> third-party projects.

To help specifically PL/Java next time, is there any chance to get it
included in the buildfarm builds? If it had been there, it would've been
caught right away...

//Magnus


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