Re: pgsql: Remove "convert 'blah' using conversion_name" facility, because

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pgsql: Remove "convert 'blah' using conversion_name" facility, because
Date: 2007-09-24 03:23:51
Message-ID: 27766.1190604231@sss.pgh.pa.us
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adunstan(at)postgresql(dot)org (Andrew Dunstan) writes:
> Remove "convert 'blah' using conversion_name" facility, because if it
> produces text it is an encoding hole and if not it's incompatible
> with the spec, whatever the spec means (which we're not sure about anyway).

It's not critical, but just for future reference, you forgot to bump
catversion here. Which you should've because adding/removing built-in
functions renders the backend incompatible with the system catalogs.

regards, tom lane

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