Re: Another swing at JSON - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bernd Helmle
Subject Re: Another swing at JSON
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Msg-id C2561666B8D59FAC3E6B1379@apophis.local
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In response to Re: Another swing at JSON  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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--On 16. Juni 2011 17:38:07 -0400 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

>> After reading Joseph's comment upthread, I don't see any consensus
>> wether the existing pre-9.1 support is required or even desired. Maybe
>> i missed it, but do we really expect an extension (or contrib module)
>> to be backwards compatible to earlier major releases, when shipped in
>> contrib/ ?
>
> No, we don't.  You won't find any attempt in any contrib module to build
> against prior releases.  There's not much point, since they're shipped
> with a specific release of the core.

Okay, then we should remove this code. It doesn't do any complicated, but it 
seems a waste of code in this case (and from a maintenance point of view).

Joseph, are you able to remove the compatibility code for this CF?

-- 
Thanks
Bernd


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