Re: Is PG a moving target? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Vivek Khera
Subject Re: Is PG a moving target?
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Msg-id F8F04D6C-9FD5-48A2-A0F9-6951E60D16CA@khera.org
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In response to Is PG a moving target?  (Ken Johanson <pg-user@kensystem.com>)
List pgsql-general
On Feb 9, 2008, at 12:20 PM, Ken Johanson wrote:

> But given the recent and dramatic example of 8.3's on-by-default
> stricter typing in functions (now not-autocasting), I worry that
> kind of change could happen in every minor version (8.4 etc).

You need to *know* your software if you're using it production.  8.4
is *not* a minor version upgrade; it is a major upgrade.  The Postgres
"guarantee" is that nothing will change in behavior on the 8.x branch
for a given x.


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