Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
>> Does someone want to make an argument that this variable should default
>> to false rather than true, for standards compliance?
> No. As much as I would like it to default to FALSE, we need to maintain
> backward compatibility for one release. We can change the default in
> 7.5/8.0.
Much further out than that.
regards, tom lane