minor HISTORY improvement

Thanks.

I have applied this to the SGML docs. The HISTORY file will be updated
automatically now.

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Neil Conway wrote:

This patch adds another item to the "migration to 7.4" list in the
HISTORY file, and attributes the shared-buffer-alignment change to
Manfred Spraul.

-Neil

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Bruce Momjian wrote:

Thanks.

I have applied this to the SGML docs. The HISTORY file will be updated
automatically now.

I didn't see in the notes about the "Migration to
version 7.4" the fact that now inside a plpgsql
function is not anymore accepted declare a variable
in this way:
my_variable ALIAS FOR$1

(note the space missing between FOR and $1).

Regards
Gaetano Mendola

Gaetano Mendola wrote:

Bruce Momjian wrote:

Thanks.

I have applied this to the SGML docs. The HISTORY file will be updated
automatically now.

I didn't see in the notes about the "Migration to
version 7.4" the fact that now inside a plpgsql
function is not anymore accepted declare a variable
in this way:
my_variable ALIAS FOR$1

(note the space missing between FOR and $1).

Do you think people are actually doing that, and if they are, wouldn't
it be obvious how to fix it? Anyone else?

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Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:

Do you think people are actually doing that, and if they are, wouldn't
it be obvious how to fix it? Anyone else?

It would probably be good if these two history items:

* Dollar sign ($) is no longer allowed in operator names
* Dollar sign ($) can be a non-first character in identifiers

were mentioned in the "incompatibilities" section.

regards, tom lane

Bruce Momjian wrote:

Gaetano Mendola wrote:

Bruce Momjian wrote:

Thanks.

I have applied this to the SGML docs. The HISTORY file will be updated
automatically now.

I didn't see in the notes about the "Migration to
version 7.4" the fact that now inside a plpgsql
function is not anymore accepted declare a variable
in this way:
my_variable ALIAS FOR$1

(note the space missing between FOR and $1).

Do you think people are actually doing that, and if they are, wouldn't
it be obvious how to fix it? Anyone else?

I had a novice here that was lost because an old well functioning
stored procedure was not working anymore.
Just my 2 cents.

Regards
Gaetano Mendola

Added. Thanks.

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Tom Lane wrote:

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:

Do you think people are actually doing that, and if they are, wouldn't
it be obvious how to fix it? Anyone else?

It would probably be good if these two history items:

* Dollar sign ($) is no longer allowed in operator names
* Dollar sign ($) can be a non-first character in identifiers

were mentioned in the "incompatibilities" section.

regards, tom lane

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