Re: BYTEA / DBD::Pg change in 9.0 beta

From: Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Kenneth Marshall <ktm(at)rice(dot)edu>, Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Bernd Helmle <mailings(at)oopsware(dot)de>, Jesper Krogh <jesper(at)krogh(dot)cc>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: BYTEA / DBD::Pg change in 9.0 beta
Date: 2010-05-19 15:31:41
Message-ID: AANLkTimi376_uecHZdA2EG95xoqUD-zw16TW_LVYCcA4@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 09:05, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Kenneth Marshall <ktm(at)rice(dot)edu> wrote:
>> Changing something like that within the minor release arc is
>> not a good idea. It would be better to have it on by default and
>> if the driver developers are not up to use it, they can have that
>> as a setting that they will need to change when going to 9.0. I
>> would be very upset to have a minor upgrade break my database. At
>> least the major upgrades have more testing.
>
> I meant, wait for the next MAJOR release to turn it on by default.
> Changing it in a minor release is clearly a bad idea.

I think with this release already being clearly marked as a bit more
than the usual major release (9.0 vs 8.5), we can get away with it
leaving the default the way it is.

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