On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 8:51 AM, Michael Paquier <michael.paqu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 1:20 AM, Vladimir Rusinov <vrusi...@google.com> wrote: >>> Personally, I think this is not important, but if you want to do it, I'd >>> follow the suggestion in the thread to rename all functions and leave >>> the old names as aliases or wrappers of some kind. >> >> I think I agree with Michael Paquier: "Better to do breakages in a single >> release rather than spreading them across releases.". >> There's going to be a lot of broken scripts following pg_xlog rename, so I >> think it makes sense to just drop functions as well. > > For consistency that makes sense in my view. But I won't be too noisy > as well if people think that we should keep aliases for compatibility.
Actually, I am changing my mind on this bit, following Peter's opinion. Maintaining aliases of the past functions is a no-brainer, and it has no cost in terms of maintenance. That will save much pain to many monitoring scripts as well. -- Michael -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
