On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 10:15:42 -0400 (EDT), Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >OK, I have heard enough votes to add this.
In a second version of this patch posted on 2002-06-26 you can control the tuple format by #define/#undef PG72FORMAT. While there have been voices saying that exposing this choice to the user via configure --enable-pg72format is not a good idea [well, it was one voice and the idea was called "really, really bad" ;-) but the argument is still valid], I wonder whether we shouldn't apply this second version (without the configure parts) and put all forthcoming format changes under #ifndef PG72FORMAT. This way you can decide to go back to v7.2 format immediately before going beta, if the changes are too hot to handle. And I think if I wouldn't volunteer to cleanup the #ifdef PG72FORMAT stuff after the new format has been accepted, I would be nominated to do it ... Servus Manfred ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster