Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Magnus Hagander wrote: >> Could the "new style" macros be back-ported to previous releases in case >> we do this?
> Yes, Tom and I talked about this. It could appear in the next minor > release of all branches. I don't really see the point of that. Third-party authors who want their code to be backwards-compatible would do something like #ifndef SET_VARLENA_LEN #define SET_VARLENA_LEN(var,len) (VARATT_SIZEP(var) = (len)) #endif While we could provide this same macro in later updates of the current release branches, those authors are still going to want to include the above in their code so as to be able to compile against existing releases. Therefore there's not really much point in us doing it too. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match