Andreas Pflug wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>
>>
>> I removed the separate pg_file_length() function, as it doesn't have any
>> significant notational advantage anymore; you can do
>
>
> Please note that there are pg_file_length functions in use for 8.0 on
> probably >95 % of win32 installations, so you're breaking backwards
> compatibility.
>
>
If the windows packagers have added extra functions into their build of
postgres, then they can maintain them, no? Of course, this would
illustrate the danger of such a practice. Postgres is surely only
obligated to try not to break backwards compatibility with its own
released code.
cheers
andrew