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Re: Another swing at JSON

Bernd Helmle <mailings@oopsware.de>

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From: Bernd Helmle <mailings@oopsware.de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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: 2011-06-17T06:29:58Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 

--On 16. Juni 2011 17:38:07 -0400 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

>> 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.

Okay, then we should remove this code. It doesn't do any complicated, but it 
seems a waste of code in this case (and from a maintenance point of view).

Joseph, are you able to remove the compatibility code for this CF?

-- 
Thanks

	Bernd