Re: Dump pageinspect to 1.2: page_header with pg_lsn datatype

Robert Haas escribió:
> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Alvaro Herrera
> <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> > Yeah, erroring out seems good enough. Particularly if you add a hint
> > saying "please upgrade the extension".
>
> In past instances where this has come up, we have actually made the
> .so backward-compatible. See pg_stat_statements in particular. I'd
> prefer to keep to that precedent here.

But pg_stat_statement is a user tool which is expected to have lots of
use, and backwards compatibility concerns because of people who might
have written tools on top of it. Not so with pageinspect. I don't
think we need to put in the same amount of effort. (Even though,
really, it's probably not all that difficult to support both cases. I
just don't see the point.)

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