"David E. Wheeler" <da...@kineticode.com> writes:
> On Jul 18, 2010, at 1:35 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> I think there are two ways we can do this, seeing that most appear to be
>> in favor of doing it in the first place: Either we just flip the
>> default, make a note in the release notes, and see what happens. Or we
>> spend some time now and make, say, a list of driver versions and
>> application versions that work with standard_conforming_strings = on,
>> and then decide based on that, and also make that list a public resource
>> for packagers etc.
> Do both. Turn them on, then make a list and inform driver maintainers who
> need to update. They've got a year, after all.
Yeah. If we wait for driver authors to do something, we'll never make
this change at all. The idea of committing it now is to give them a
shove, *and* enough time to respond.
regards, tom lane
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