From:
David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
To:
Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc:
Alexey Klyukin <alexk(at)commandprompt(dot)com>,Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>,Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>,"David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>,pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject:
Re: arrays as pl/perl input arguments [PATCH]
Date:
2011-01-12 19:27:46
Message-ID:
20110112192746.GB21124@fetter.org (view raw or flat )
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2011-01-11 22:25:35 from Alexey Klyukin <alexk(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
2011-01-11 23:07:53 from "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>
2011-01-11 23:44:53 from Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
2011-01-12 00:17:05 from "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>
2011-01-12 00:55:49 from Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
2011-01-12 02:06:09 from Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
2011-01-12 04:45:51 from Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
2011-01-12 13:34:06 from Alexey Klyukin <alexk(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
2011-01-12 19:22:55 from Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com>
2011-01-12 19:27:05 from "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>
2011-01-12 19:27:46 from David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
2011-01-12 19:36:17 from Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
2011-01-12 19:39:56 from "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>
2011-01-12 19:51:43 from Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
2011-01-12 19:55:17 from "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>
2011-01-12 20:17:08 from Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
2011-01-12 20:13:25 from Alexey Klyukin <alexk(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
2011-01-12 21:22:03 from Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
2011-01-12 21:45:05 from Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
2011-01-12 23:29:28 from Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
2011-01-12 23:37:34 from "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>
2011-01-13 07:28:54 from Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com>
2011-01-13 04:57:20 from Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
2011-01-12 13:14:17 from Alexey Klyukin <alexk(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
2011-01-12 18:52:42 from "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>
2011-01-12 20:04:56 from Alexey Klyukin <alexk(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
2011-01-15 22:48:28 from Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com>
2011-01-26 18:45:52 from Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com>
2011-01-26 19:44:26 from Alexey Klyukin <alexk(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
2011-01-26 20:08:03 from Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com>
2011-01-26 20:35:06 from Alexey Klyukin <alexk(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
2011-01-26 22:44:05 from Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com>
2011-01-27 07:31:47 from Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com>
2011-01-27 10:38:53 from Alexey Klyukin <alexk(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
2011-01-28 22:27:06 from Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com>
2011-01-31 08:34:23 from Alexey Klyukin <alexk(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
2011-02-01 17:04:47 from Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com>
2011-02-04 01:29:59 from Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com>
2011-02-04 17:29:59 from Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
2011-02-04 18:43:34 from Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com>
2011-02-06 07:43:51 from Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com>
2011-02-08 15:18:22 from Alexey Klyukin <alexk(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
2011-02-08 17:33:37 from Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com>
2011-02-08 18:31:25 from Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com>
2011-02-09 01:44:00 from Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com>
2011-02-09 15:24:23 from Alexey Klyukin <alexk(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
2011-02-09 19:28:21 from Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com>
2011-02-10 13:15:59 from Alexey Klyukin <alexk(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
2011-02-10 19:44:09 from Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
2011-02-10 21:26:58 from Alexey Klyukin <alexk(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
2011-02-12 00:17:12 from Alexey Klyukin <alexk(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
2011-02-12 07:53:14 from Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com>
2011-02-15 14:39:07 from Alexey Klyukin <alexk(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
2011-02-15 17:45:22 from "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>
2011-02-15 17:49:17 from Alexey Klyukin <alexk(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
2011-02-15 17:52:26 from "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>
2011-02-16 22:54:07 from Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
2011-02-16 22:57:13 from Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
2011-02-18 02:12:29 from Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
2011-02-17 23:18:27 from Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
2011-02-18 00:36:45 from Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com>
2011-02-16 17:08:11 from Tim Bunce <Tim(dot)Bunce(at)pobox(dot)com>
2011-02-16 19:21:58 from Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
2011-02-17 06:12:46 from Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com>
2011-01-13 05:12:47 from Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
2011-01-13 07:06:33 from Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com>
2011-01-13 08:06:45 from Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
2011-01-13 16:55:44 from Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com>
2011-01-14 00:15:29 from "Stephen J(dot) Butler" <stephen(dot)butler(at)gmail(dot)com>
2011-01-14 00:22:31 from "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>
2011-02-02 17:16:00 from Tim Bunce <Tim(dot)Bunce(at)pobox(dot)com>
2011-02-03 12:23:32 from Alexey Klyukin <alexk(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
2011-02-03 16:52:50 from "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>
2011-02-03 18:01:16 from Tim Bunce <Tim(dot)Bunce(at)pobox(dot)com>
2011-02-03 18:20:48 from Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
2011-02-08 14:40:38 from Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
2011-02-09 19:16:35 from Tim Bunce <Tim(dot)Bunce(at)pobox(dot)com>
2011-02-03 18:24:47 from Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
2011-02-03 20:21:42 from Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com>
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On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 12:22:55PM -0700, Alex Hunsaker wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 06:34, Alexey Klyukin <alexk(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> >
> > On Jan 12, 2011, at 4:06 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
> >> By the same token, I'm not convinced it's a good idea for this
> >> behavior to be off by default. Surely many people will
> >> altogether fail to notice that it's an option? If we're going to
> >> have a backward-compatibility GUC at all, ISTM that you ought to
> >> get the good stuff unless you ask for the old way.
> >
> > I think the number of people failing to notice the changes would
> > be the same whenever we set the new or the old behavior by
> > default. I decided to default to the the old behavior since it
> > won't break the existing code as opposed to just hiding the good
> > stuff, although it would slower the adoption of the new behavior.
>
> Personally, I think the point of a compatibility GUC is that at some
> point in the distant future we can get rid of it. If we default to
> the old behavior thats going to be harder to do. +1 for defaulting
> to the new behavior.
>
> [ Id actually vote for _not_ having a compatibility option at all,
> we change more major things than this IMHO every major release. (And
> even then some major things in minor releases, for example the
> removal of Safe.pm) ]
+1 for changing the behavior to something sane with loud, specific
warnings in the release notes about what will break and how.
Cheers,
David.
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