On 07/26/2016 06:25 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 7/5/16 4:24 AM, Albe Laurenz wrote:
>> But notwithstanding your feeling that you would like your application
>> to break if it makes use of this behaviour, it is a change that might
>> make some people pretty unhappy - nobody can tell how many.
>
> What is the use of the existing behavior? You get back an arbitrary
> implementation dependent value. We don't even guarantee what the value
> will be. If we changed it to return a different implementation
> dependent value, would users get upset?
No they would not get upset because they wouldn't know.
Can we just do the right thing?
JD
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