On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Joshua Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
>> As ever, we spent much energy on debating backwards compatibility
>> rather than just solving the problem it posed, which is fairly easy
>> to
>> solve.
>
> Well, IIRC, the debate was primarily of *your* making. Almost everyone else on the thread was fine with the original
patch,and it was nearly done for 9.2 before you stepped in. I can't find anyone else on that thread who thought that
backwardscompatibility was more important than fixing the API.
+1. Let's JFDI.
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