Tom Lane wrote:
> The only alternative that comes to mind is
> to have initdb issue an additional SQL command to establish the default
> after the bootstrap phase; that is, something like
>
> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION
> pg_start_backup(label text, fast boolean DEFAULT false)
> RETURNS text LANGUAGE internal STRICT AS 'start_backup';
>
> in system_views.sql or some such place.
I think it's worth having this, perhaps as a new SQL file to be called
by initdb. I'm sure we can come up with new system functions for which
it's going to be useful to have default values.
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