Re: Proposal: allow installation of any contrib module

> I don't think two releases from API change to API change is enough -
> postgresql is running larger and larger databases by now and I expect
> people to upgrade less often in the future (and iirc you already said
> something along the lines of recommending such things on occasion to
> your customers too).
> So if you have things in core you really have to provide a stable API
> over a number of releases or in practise - years.

Two releases is approximately 3 years. With the exception of 8.3.

Joshua D. Drake


> And depending on how the API changed it might not even be possible to
> stay backwards compatible so:
> 
>> Maybe there isn't a good answer.
> 
> Indeed there might not be one ...
> 
> 
> Stefan
> 


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