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Re: getpid() function

Rod Taylor <rbt@zort.ca>

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From: Rod Taylor <rbt@zort.ca>
To: Neil Conway <nconway@klamath.dyndns.org>
Cc: Karel Zak <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz>, Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-08-01T14:48:32Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers, pgsql-general 
On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 10:44, Neil Conway wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 12:01:52PM +0200, Karel Zak wrote:
> >  Is there some common convention of names?

> functions. However, establishing a naming convention without
> breaking backwards compatibility might be tricky.

Supporting both names for a release with comments in the release notes
stating the old names will disappear soon should be enough.

Most of the time it'll be a simple replacement command.  Providing a
find -exec sed statement may help.