| From: | Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA(at)wien(dot)spardat(dot)at> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | "'Bruce Momjian'" <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | AW: Coping with 'C' vs 'newC' function language names |
| Date: | 2000-11-13 08:58:30 |
| Message-ID: | 11C1E6749A55D411A9670001FA68796336810D@sdexcsrv1.f000.d0188.sd.spardat.at |
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> > because as said, it can be any other language besides C and also
> > the 'AS file' is weird.
>
> This is interesting. It allows us to control the default behavour of
> "C". I would vote to default to 7.0-style when no version is used for
> 7.1, then default to 7.1 style in 7.2 and later. We don't need
> backward C function compatibility for more than one release, I think.
We need the 7.0 style for compatibility with other DB's. Postgres was
"the" pioneer in this area, but similar functionality is now available in other DB's.
I think it would be worthwhile, to at least peek at what Informix and DB/2
does here.
Andreas
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