Re: Beta2 Wrap Up ...

On Sun, 18 Sep 2005, Magnus Hagander wrote:

>>>> Having spent days, no, weeks deciding on that name on list I do not
>>>> want to see it change this late, especially as we'll now need to go
>>>> and update pgAdmin again!
>>
>> Fortunately, pgAdmin doesn't use that function, but only the
>> basic pg_relation_size(). Phew!
>
> Good for you :-)
>
>
>>> Also, the change to pg_cancel_backend breaks backwards compatibility
>>> with 8.0, which is a whole lot worse than breaking it with
>> 8.1-beta1.
>>
>> Unfortunately, core doesn't see this as backward compatibility break,
>> instead it's regarded as adjustment of a new function.
>> Anything that's not in core isn't worth a single thought....
>
> This function has been in core since 8.0. The other functions were new
> (to core that is, imported from external module), but this one was in
> the main backend already.

Is there a reason the old/new can't be aliaseed to each other, instead of 
the old just being removed?

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