Re: Another swing at JSON

From: Bernd Helmle <mailings(at)oopsware(dot)de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Joseph Adams <joeyadams3(dot)14159(at)gmail(dot)com>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Another swing at JSON
Date: 2011-06-17 06:29:58
Message-ID: C2561666B8D59FAC3E6B1379@apophis.local
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--On 16. Juni 2011 17:38:07 -0400 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

>> After reading Joseph's comment upthread, I don't see any consensus
>> wether the existing pre-9.1 support is required or even desired. Maybe
>> i missed it, but do we really expect an extension (or contrib module)
>> to be backwards compatible to earlier major releases, when shipped in
>> contrib/ ?
>
> No, we don't. You won't find any attempt in any contrib module to build
> against prior releases. There's not much point, since they're shipped
> with a specific release of the core.

Okay, then we should remove this code. It doesn't do any complicated, but it
seems a waste of code in this case (and from a maintenance point of view).

Joseph, are you able to remove the compatibility code for this CF?

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Thanks

Bernd

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