On tor, 2011-04-21 at 13:39 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Josh Berkus writes:
> > Better that someone should just focus on whipping Robert's (or was it
> > Greg's?) replace-the-missing-casts package into shape as an extension.
>
> I think Peter originated that, actually. My recollection is that there
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> But I'm still unclear on what would really be accomplished
> by extending support for it. Sooner or later we have to get people
> to migrate up from it, and I see no reason to think that supporting
> it for just a year more will change anythin
Josh Berkus writes:
> Better that someone should just focus on whipping Robert's (or was it
> Greg's?) replace-the-missing-casts package into shape as an extension.
I think Peter originated that, actually. My recollection is that there
didn't seem to be any way to extend it to a complete solutio
Dave Page writes:
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I agree that the incremental effort would not be so large, but what
>> makes you think that the situation will change given another year?
> It would also make at least one packager very unhappy as the 8.2
> Windows build is
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> [ man, this thread has totally outlived its title, could we change that?
> I'll start with this subtopic ]
>
> Robert Haas writes:
>> In fact, I've been wondering if we shouldn't consider extending the
>> support window for 8.2 past the current
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 06:04:09PM +0100, Dave Page wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> > [ man, this thread has totally outlived its title, could we change that?
> > ?I'll start with this subtopic ]
> >
> > Robert Haas writes:
> >> In fact, I've been wondering if we shoul
All,
>>> In fact, I've been wondering if we shouldn't consider extending the
>>> support window for 8.2 past the currently-planned December 2011.
>>> There seem to be quite a lot of people running that release precisely
>>> because the casting changes in 8.3 were so painful, and I think the
>>> in
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> [ man, this thread has totally outlived its title, could we change that?
> I'll start with this subtopic ]
>
> Robert Haas writes:
>> In fact, I've been wondering if we shouldn't consider extending the
>> support window for 8.2 past the currentl
[ man, this thread has totally outlived its title, could we change that?
I'll start with this subtopic ]
Robert Haas writes:
> In fact, I've been wondering if we shouldn't consider extending the
> support window for 8.2 past the currently-planned December 2011.
> There seem to be quite a lot of
