Re: Coping with 'C' vs 'newC' function language namesh

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: mlw <markw(at)mohawksoft(dot)com>, "'Marko Kreen'" <marko(at)l-t(dot)ee>, Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA(at)wien(dot)spardat(dot)at>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Coping with 'C' vs 'newC' function language namesh
Date: 2000-11-16 04:42:05
Message-ID: 200011160442.XAA24753@candle.pha.pa.us
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> To answer another misconception that I saw in this thread:
>
> : The old language names "internal" and "C" will continue to refer to
> : functions with the old calling convention. We should deprecate
> : old-style functions because of their portability problems, but the
> : support for them will only be one small function handler routine,
> : so we can leave them in place for as long as necessary.

My question is can we drop newC and use just plain C in 7.2 or 7.3?

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