"J. T. Vermeulen" <jtv@cistron-office.nl> writes:
> Here's a version of my suggested diffs transplanted to 7.1 beta 5.
> I'm still looking at the best way to integrate Tom Vijlbrief's fixes
> (insofar as they're still needed); would 7.2 be a suitable time for
> incompatible API changes?
Yes. It's too late in the 7.1 cycle for anything except bug fixes,
though (and even there, probably only critical fixes...)
regards, tom lane