Re: standard_conforming_strings - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: standard_conforming_strings
Date
Msg-id 5959.1279208629@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: standard_conforming_strings  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> On Jul 15, 2010, at 12:30 AM, Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com> wrote:
>> Any reason not to add a line to the 9.0 docs/release notes saying "WARNING: The PGDG currently plan to change this
setting'sdefault in 9.1"?
 

> Well, mostly that we could change our mind if it makes too big a boom.
> And it's not as if we could go back and update everyone's docs
> after-the-fact.

Yeah.  Our track record for predicting in the version-N docs what
changes will be made in version N+1 is spectacularly bad; we should
not try that here, even if the change is being made before 9.0 actually
goes final.  There is already a statement that the default will change
"in a future release", and that seems sufficient to me.
        regards, tom lane


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