Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 10:39 AM Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com> wrote:
>> scanint8() is exported, and this change breaks at least two extensions I
>> maintain.
> I don't have a particularly strong view on whether the underlying
> change was a good idea here, but the breakage you're talking about
> seems pretty easy to fix, unless I'm missing something? I think it
> would be a bad idea to make such a change in a minor release without
> concern for extension breakage, but in a new major release it doesn't
> seem like a problem to me.
Yeah, this seems well within our expectations for major-release
changes.
regards, tom lane