On Wed, Jul 31, 2024 at 1:26 PM Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> However, the risk is that an end-user is going to be much less able to
> evaluate what is and isn't safe than we are. I think some people are
> going to be like -- well the core project doesn't mark enough stuff
> leakproof, so I'll just go add markings to a bunch of stuff myself.
> And they probably won't stop at stuff like UPPER which is almost
> leakproof. They might add it to stuff such as LIKE which results in
> immediately giving away the farm. By not giving people any guidance,
> we invite them to make up their own rules.
+1.
Would it provide enough value for effort to explicitly mark leaky
procedures as such? Maybe that could shrink the grey area enough to be
protective?
--Jacob
