Re: [PATCH] Add transforms feature

On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:35 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-12-06 at 11:28 +0100, Dimitri Fontaine wrote:
>> > Here is an idea.  Add a GUC that basically says something like
>> > use_transforms = on|off.  You can then attach that to individual
>> > functions, which is the right granularity, because only the function
>> > knows whether its code expects transforms or not.  But you can use
>> the
>> > full power of GUC to configure it any way you want.
>
> Here is an updated patch that implements this, makes some of the
> documentation improvements that you suggested, and rebases everything.

I'm still kinda unimpressed by this.  Behavior-changing GUC, uggh.

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