> If people feel that backwards compatibiliy is important I would suggest
> it be done in the following way:
>
> A new connection parameter named 'compatible' be defined whose default
> value is 7.2 (i.e new functionality). But you could set compatible=7.1
> to revert back to the old functionality. (This is how Oracle deals with
> similar issues in its code base). This parameter could then be set
> either in the JDBC URL (i.e.
> jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432:template1?compatible=7.1) or passed
> explicily in the connect() method.
GUC seems to be the way to control these things. It can be set in
postgresql.conf and via a SET command.
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