Re: Is PG a moving target?

On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 10:20:51 -0700
Ken Johanson <pg-user@kensystem.com> wrote:

> I acknowledge that from time to time we must accept changes in the
> 3rd party software that will break our apps if we (or customers) ever
> upgrade them (a compounded issue if we have heavily-used deployments
> in the field and not just in-house ones to maintain).
>
> 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).

8.4 is a major release. 8.3.1 would be a minor release.

Joshua D. Drake


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