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Re: [HACKERS] Revised proposal for libpq and FE/BE protocol changes

Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: dg@illustra.com (David Gould)
Cc: phil@river-bank.demon.co.uk, tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us, pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org, pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-05-22T14:16:49Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
> Database customers at least in the commercial world can be incredibly
> conservative. It is not at all uncommon to have large sites running DBMS
> engines that are three major releases (ie, well over three years) old.
> Once they get an app working, they really don't want anything to change.

And, oh yea, we kept database compatability, thanks to Tom Lane.

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