Re: Open items list for 8.1

On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Tom Lane wrote:

> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
>> fix ALTER SCHEMA RENAME for sequence dependency, or remove feature
>
> I've posted a proposed patch to fix this.  The patch requires an initdb
> (to add new sequence functions), so if we do that we may as well also
> fix the 32/64bit risk mentioned here:
> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-09/msg01241.php
>
> Also, the floor seems open to discuss whether or not to revert the file
> access functions to their pre-beta2 APIs.  I've got mixed feelings about
> that myself, but you can certainly make a case that the current
> definitions are not enough cleaner than what was there before to justify
> changing.  This seems particularly true for pg_cancel_backend(), which
> already was in the core in 8.0.

IMHO, changes like this *should not* have been allowed during beta, period 
... even during feature freeze, it would have been questionable :(

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