Am Sonntag, 25. Juli 2004 01:48 schrieb Tom Lane: > One issue is that it may break existing PLs that override Warn_restart, > since the semantics of doing that will have changed a bit. We can > easily fix the PLs that are in our own CVS, but what are the > implications for other PLs such as PL/R and PL/SH? Joe, Peter, any > comments?
PL/sh is OK, but both PL/Ruby and PL/Java play around with Warn_restart. > I am somewhat tempted to rename the setjmp variable Warn_restart to > something else, so as to catch any code that is still expecting the > old behavior (besides, it was never a very good name anyway). On the > other hand, there may be cases where a PL's code doesn't actually need > to change, and if so a rename would just break it unnecessarily. Any > votes which way to jump? Maybe the authors (in Cc) can comment what support they need. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
