On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 1:55 AM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>
>> Sorry for having lost track of this. I think if we're going to do this,
>> we should do it now not later, because it essentially reverts the
>> connectDatabase() API change made in 83dec5a71 in favor of a different API
>> change with the same purpose. Now, that doesn't matter if no third-party
>> code is using connectDatabase(), but I have a suspicion that there
>> probably is some. Any such users will not thank us for whacking
>> connectDatabase's API around in 9.5 and then whacking it around
>> differently in 9.6.
>>
>> In short, I think we should apply this now and back-patch into 9.5,
>> like the prior patch, even though we're post-RC1. The reduction in
>> cross-version API churn is worth it.
>>
>> If no objections, I'll go do that shortly.
>
> No objection here.
Thanks for taking care of that!
--
Michael