Tom Lane wrote: > Simon Riggs <si...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: >> It's a major undertaking trying to write software that runs against >> PostgreSQL for more than one release. We should be making that easier, >> not harder. > > None of the proposals would make it impossible to write a LOCK statement > that works on all available releases, [....]
+1 for this as a nice guideline/philosophy for syntax changes in general. Personally I don't mind changing a few SQL statements when I upgrade to a new release; but it sure is nice if there's at least some syntax that works on both a current and previous release. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
