Hello, On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 11:18:39PM -0600, Chris Johnson wrote:
Daniel Convissor wrote:
Hi:
2) Droping columns isn't being done for pgsql because it didn't support
4.6 -> 4.7 update drops column for postgres (if there's an update that doesn't do that, that's a bug).
doing so prior to 7.4. I'd like to add a database version check inside
Postgres supports dropping columns since 7.3, not 7.4. For drupal 4.7 we require postgresql 7.3 or newer.
Maybe we should just drop support for Postgresql 7.3 and earlier. 7.4 was released 2003-11-17, so it's over 2 years old now. The current production
Mysql 4.0.1 was released 2001-12-23. Last mysql 3.x was released 2003-11-11. Let's drop 3.x! ;)
Does anyone know of a good reason to maintain support for 7.3 and earlier? Dropping 7.3 seems like it would solve this problem with dropping columns, and probably a few other problems as well.
There is only 1 problem with 7.3 that I know of, so far: it doesn't support "anyelement" in CREATE FUNCTION, which is used to implement IF() function. But that's easy if someone needs too (the best fix would be to use CASE instead of IF...) I don't have anything against dropping 7.3 support, but OTOH I don't see any gains and "dropping" it would change nothing in fact. -- Piotrek irc: #debian.pl Mors Drosophilis melanogastribus!