Tom Lane wrote:
> Again, I suppose I should have objected earlier, but I really seriously
> doubt that this is a good idea.
Ugh. I thought we had a consensus that this was the accepted way
forward; that's my reading of the old thread,
http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/20141016133218.GW28859@tamriel.snowman.net#20141016133218.GW28859@tamriel.snowman.net
Breaking clients was considered acceptable, which is why some of these
functions were introduced. There were some differing opinions; Simon
for instance suggested the use of an array rather than a bitmask, but
that would have broken clients all the same.
If there's strong opposition to this whole line of development, I can
revert. Anyone else wants to give an opinion?
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