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Re: Another swing at JSON

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

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Bernd Helmle <mailings@oopsware.de>
Cc: Joseph Adams <joeyadams3.14159@gmail.com>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri@2ndquadrant.fr>, David Fetter <david@fetter.org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2011-06-16T21:38:07Z
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Bernd Helmle <mailings@oopsware.de> writes:
> After reading Joseph's comment upthread, I don't see any consensus
> wether the existing pre-9.1 support is required or even desired. Maybe
> i missed it, but do we really expect an extension (or contrib module)
> to be backwards compatible to earlier major releases, when shipped in
> contrib/ ?

No, we don't.  You won't find any attempt in any contrib module to build
against prior releases.  There's not much point, since they're shipped
with a specific release of the core.

			regards, tom lane