Roberto,
> No, that was not what I was suggesting. I was suggesting (based on my
> assumption that 'create function ... returns opaque' would convert the
> return type to trigger), that its behaviour be made consistent with
> 'create or replace function' and throw an error if the type is opaque.
I can't see any way to do that without making it very difficult to upgrade to
7.3.
> For our next release, our plan was to have both 7.2 and 7.3
> compatibility. For the release after that, 7.2 compatibility would
> probably be dumped in favor of 7.3, where we could make use of 7.3-specific
> features. We wanted it to be a gradual path.
Where does OpenACS do its object creation? Just at setup/install time, or
through the life of the program? If the former, I'd suggest having two
seperate database install scripts ... one for 7.2.and one for 7.3.
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Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco