| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Dave Page <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: OPAQUE and 7.2-7.3 upgrade |
| Date: | 2002-09-12 14:54:44 |
| Message-ID: | 7393.1031842484@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk> writes:
> On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 15:31, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Does anyone see a cleaner answer than re-allowing OPAQUE for PL
>> handlers?
> Can't you just special case the language handlers when dumping <7.3 and
> change 'RETURNS opaque' to 'RETURNS language_handler'? That's all that
> is needed to let them be restored OK into 7.3.
Only if people dump their old databases with 7.3 pg_dump; which is an
assumption I'd rather not make if we can avoid it.
OTOH, if we did do such a thing we could probably fix OPAQUE triggers
and datatype I/O ops too ...
regards, tom lane
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