Subject | Re: [firebird-support] 60 chars in a 50 field |
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Author | Kjell Rilbe |
Post date | 2005-02-24T21:56Z |
Chad Z. Hower wrote:
and drop that hopefully small item of backwards compatibility. Those who
need the old behavior can always stay at the old version until they can
find the resources to adapt to the new corrected version. It's bad
manners to exploit "features" that are obviously not supposed to be
there, and this is as obvious as it gets.
Kjell
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> If we have to preserve the old behavior as an option (as much as I think itsYes. Totally agree. Or introduce the new behavior in a new major version
> bad, I understand the need not to break apps) it could be made a new
> parameter in the connection string. I think it should default to the NEW (ie
> proper) behavior though.
and drop that hopefully small item of backwards compatibility. Those who
need the old behavior can always stay at the old version until they can
find the resources to adapt to the new corrected version. It's bad
manners to exploit "features" that are obviously not supposed to be
there, and this is as obvious as it gets.
Kjell
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Kjell Rilbe
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