On 02/01/2013 11:20 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> I'm not really thrilled with switching the default assumption to be V1,
> especially not if we implement that by telling authors they can stop
> bothering with the macros. The pain will just come back sometime in the
> future when we decide we need a function API V2. (I'm actually a bit
> surprised V1 has lived this long without changes.)
>
> Here's a different straw-man proposal: let's start requiring *all*
> external C functions to have an API-version block. We can add a
> PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V0(myfunc) macro for those people who are still using
> V0 and don't feel like changing their code (and you know they're out
> there). For the rest of us, this would allow emitting an appropriate
> error when we forget the macro.
Sounds like a good plan.
cheers
andrew