On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
>> Well, since I asked in April of 2009, at the beginning of the cycle, 6
>> years after the introduction of the variable, and we still are not doing
>> it, then let's stop pretending we will ever do it.
>
> We have made forward progress since that thread (we fixed the plpgsql
> parsing issues, partially in 8.4 and completely for 9.0).
This is a really good argument. If there are changes in 9.0 that are
designed to mitigate the impact of this change, then we should wait at
least one or two more releases before doing anything.
I say, let's plan it for 10.0.
...Robert