Re: 8.0 questions - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Vivek Khera
Subject Re: 8.0 questions
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Msg-id x7wtxtup2j.fsf@yertle.int.kciLink.com
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In response to Re: 8.0 questions  ("Thomas Madsen" <tm@softcom.dk>)
Responses Re: 8.0 questions  (David Garamond <lists@zara.6.isreserved.com>)
List pgsql-general
>>>>> "GS" == Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu> writes:

GS> David Garamond <lists@zara.6.isreserved.com> writes:

GS> Another reason to move to 7.4.5 would be that each version
GS> introduced changes in behaviour. You're going to be dealing with
GS> minor headaches from things like '' not being a valid integer any
GS> more (it used to parse as 0 now it's an error). It'll be easier to
GS> do that in two steps than to deal with them all at once.

I disagree.  If you're in your app and need to modify code, it is
easier to make all the changes at once and regression test them, than
do it twice: you're testing workload is likely to be more if you split
the changes.

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