On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Greg Sabino Mullane <g...@turnstep.com> wrote: > Perl (DBD::Pg anyway) has been compatible since May 2008.
I would interpret that to mean that there is a significant possibility that a too-old DBD::Pg could get used with a new PostgreSQL, and therefore we shouldn't change anything for 9.0. May 2008 is not that long ago, especially for people running systems like RHEL with five-year major release cycles. I am not sure I really understand why anyone is a rush to make this change. What harm is being done by the status quo? What benefit do we get out of changing the default? The major argument that has been offered so far is that "if we don't change it now, we never will", but I don't believe that the tenor of this discussion supports the contention that Tom or anyone else never wants to make this change. It also seems to overlook the fact that we are STILL dealing with the fallout from this change in the core code; Tom gave examples upthread of changes that are being released for the first time *in 9.0* to address problems created by this transition. And that is just the core code; we have to expect that third-party code will lag behind. ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
