On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 17:25, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
>> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 21:59, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
>>> So if we're going to break compatibility, then we could stand to make a
>>> little noise about it.
>
>> We've broken the admin apps in pretty much every single release. And
>> they generally don't complain.
>
> Yeah. Quite honestly, this thread is trying to turn a molehill into a
> mountain. I will confidently predict that the really big, nasty change
> in 9.1 is the change of default standard_conforming_strings. That's
> going to break way more apps than anything else, and possibly in
> security-critical ways. Anybody who moves an app onto 9.1 without
> testing it is going to suffer big-time.
+(a lot)
in fact, I think we should definitely "shout out" more clearly about
that one in the release notes. Yes, it's the very first item. But I
think it deserves a big fat warning box as well.
--
Magnus Hagander
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