Thread: System catalog changes between 9.0 beta4 and rc1
I've asked this question on IRC, but unfortunately no answer. Could someone tell me what system catalog changes were made between 9.0 beta4 and RC1? Thanks -- Thom Brown Twitter: @darkixion IRC (freenode): dark_ixion Registered Linux user: #516935
Thom Brown <thom@linux.com> writes: > I've asked this question on IRC, but unfortunately no answer. Could > someone tell me what system catalog changes were made between 9.0 > beta4 and RC1? The CVS (or soon to be git) log for catversion.h is a good place to look for answers to such questions. http://anoncvs.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/include/catalog/catversion.h In this case the answer is: Remove the single-argument form of string_agg(). It added nothing much in functionality, while creating an ambiguity in usage with ORDER BY that at least two people have already gotten seriously confused by. Also, add an opr_sanity test to check that we don't in future violate the newly minted policy of not having built-in aggregates with the same name and different numbers of parameters. Per discussion of a complaint from Thom Brown. regards, tom lane
On 2 September 2010 17:45, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Thom Brown <thom@linux.com> writes: >> I've asked this question on IRC, but unfortunately no answer. Could >> someone tell me what system catalog changes were made between 9.0 >> beta4 and RC1? > > The CVS (or soon to be git) log for catversion.h is a good place to > look for answers to such questions. > http://anoncvs.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/include/catalog/catversion.h > > In this case the answer is: > > Remove the single-argument form of string_agg(). It added nothing much in > functionality, while creating an ambiguity in usage with ORDER BY that at > least two people have already gotten seriously confused by. Also, add an > opr_sanity test to check that we don't in future violate the newly minted > policy of not having built-in aggregates with the same name and different > numbers of parameters. Per discussion of a complaint from Thom Brown. > > regards, tom lane > For some reason I thought that was beta 4 but I've obviously got my versions mixed up. Thanks Tom. -- Thom Brown Twitter: @darkixion IRC (freenode): dark_ixion Registered Linux user: #516935
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Thom Brown <thom@linux.com> writes: >> I've asked this question on IRC, but unfortunately no answer. Could >> someone tell me what system catalog changes were made between 9.0 >> beta4 and RC1? > > The CVS (or soon to be git) log for catversion.h is a good place to > look for answers to such questions. > http://anoncvs.postgresql.org/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/include/catalog/catversion.h > > In this case the answer is: > > Remove the single-argument form of string_agg(). It added nothing much in > functionality, while creating an ambiguity in usage with ORDER BY that at > least two people have already gotten seriously confused by. Also, add an > opr_sanity test to check that we don't in future violate the newly minted > policy of not having built-in aggregates with the same name and different > numbers of parameters. Per discussion of a complaint from Thom Brown. Cool, so in this case Thom could have found the changes by grepping for his own name in the source. :)