Re: [PATCH] Largeobject Access Controls (r2432)

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>, Jaime Casanova <jcasanov@systemguards.com.ec>, KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2009-12-03T20:33:51Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> I agree that search and replace isn't that hard, but I don't find the
> proposed construction awkward, and we have various uses of it in the
> docs already.  Actually the COPY one is not quite clear whether it
> means <= 7.3 or < 7.3.  I think we're just aiming for consistency here
> as much as anything.

Well, the problem is that "<= 8.4" is confusing as to whether it
includes 8.4.n.  You and I know that it does because we know we
don't make feature changes in minor releases, but this is not
necessarily obvious to everyone.  "< 8.5" is much less ambiguous.

			regards, tom lane