Re: xpath changes in the recent back branches

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Marko Tiikkaja <marko(at)joh(dot)to>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Pgsql Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: xpath changes in the recent back branches
Date: 2015-03-05 02:12:42
Message-ID: 54F7BB9A.60008@gmx.net
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On 3/4/15 5:00 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
>> You can always test the server version number, and you'll have to for
>> the next major release anyway.
>
> That's not really the problem, of course. The problem is you upgrade
> and your app unexpectedly breaks. The complexity of fixing that once
> it's happened is not entirely irrelevant, but it's not really the main
> problem, either.

That paragraph was mainly a response to the claim that there is "no way"
to make it work in both old and new versions.

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