Re: citext operator precedence fix

From: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Subject: Re: citext operator precedence fix
Date: 2011-09-22 18:30:54
Message-ID: 8F193EF3-F13D-420A-8752-F5C3E1A9A14A@kineticode.com
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On Sep 22, 2011, at 11:23 AM, Robert Haas wrote:

> I believe the point David is trying to make is that someone might take
> an 9.2 version of a contrib module and manually install it on an 8.4
> server by executing the install script, perhaps with some amount of
> hackery.

Right.

> But I don't think we're required to support that case. If the user
> does a non-standard install, it's their job to deal with the fallout.

Agreed; I was thinking of how one would handle this for non-core distributed extensions. Probably not necessary for contrib.

David

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