I wrote: > Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> writes: >> With the release of Postgres 9.0, should we consider changing the >> default for 'standard_conforming_strings'?
> I'm inclined to think we're going to have enough problems without that. BTW, core already had that discussion, but maybe I should repeat it to try to forestall any other "since this is going to be 9.0, let's break backwards compatibility in a big way!" proposals. Now is not the time to be making big changes; we are much too late in the devel cycle to work through all the possible consequences. Because we switched from it's-8.5 to it's-9.0 at such a late stage, we really need to consider that that's only a marketing version number and technical compatibility decisions should be made the same way as for any other major release. Perhaps at some point we will choose to do a major version bump where we really do clean up a lot of bad backwards-compatibility things. That needs to be done in a deliberate fashion with a lot of advance planning; and things should get broken near the beginning of the devel cycle, not the end. [ still bearing scars from the 8.3 implicit-cast business, which we didn't think would generate nearly the backlash it did... ] regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers