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Re: standard_conforming_strings

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>, Cédric Villemain <cedric.villemain.debian@gmail.com>, AlexHunsaker <badalex@gmail.com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2010-07-15T15:43:49Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
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's default 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