Tom Lane wrote:
> I notice that in 8.4 and before, the function underlying text => text
> wasn't called hstore() but tconvert(). Which is going to be a serious
> PITA for anyone who wants to write cross-version-compatible SQL using
> hstore. Can we do anything about this? I don't think we want to revert
> to calling it tconvert(). Can we retroactively add the alternate name
> hstore() to previous versions, and suggest that people do that manually
> in existing hstore installations?
In general, I don't think we make enough use of supplying
backward-compatible SQL scripts to fix things, so +1. Let's use the
object-relational features we have to make things easier for users.
-- Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB
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+ None of us is going to be here forever. +