On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 09:05, Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Kenneth Marshall <k...@rice.edu> wrote: >> Changing something like that within the minor release arc is >> not a good idea. It would be better to have it on by default and >> if the driver developers are not up to use it, they can have that >> as a setting that they will need to change when going to 9.0. I >> would be very upset to have a minor upgrade break my database. At >> least the major upgrades have more testing. > > I meant, wait for the next MAJOR release to turn it on by default. > Changing it in a minor release is clearly a bad idea.
I think with this release already being clearly marked as a bit more than the usual major release (9.0 vs 8.5), we can get away with it leaving the default the way it is. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers