On 8 Jan 2007, hasta_l3_at_hotmail.com wrote:
> Galen Boyer a écrit :
>
>> On 7 Jan 2007, hasta_l3_at_hotmail.com wrote:
>> > Galen Boyer a écrit :
>> >
>> >> On Sat, 06 Jan 2007, damorgan_at_psoug.org wrote:
>> >> > Galen Boyer wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > I can see complaints about missing reserved words being
>> >> > valid. But to complain about words that are in the listing
>> >> > strikes me as more of a RTFM issue.
>> >>
>> >> It does not really matter, but I would come down on the side of,
>> >> "if the name is not valid, then do not let me use it".
>> >
>> > And break backward compatibility ?
>>
>> Well, one can also implement it in a way to not break backward
>> compatibility, or can Oracle never actually continue to upgrade their
>> product to do things better than the last time?
>>
>
> I dont know, Galen. I'm all for error messages, and hate the
> kind of patches Oracle had to do here.
>
> However, I just dont see how they could have avoided it
> without breaking compatibility. If you have an idea, I'm
> sincerely interested to know...
Can't they check what version they are on and throw the message if they
are on the later versions?
--
Galen Boyer
Received on Tue Jan 09 2007 - 22:08:07 CST
