"David E. Wheeler" <da...@kineticode.com> writes:
> On Jan 11, 2011, at 3:44 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> I think there's at least a danger of breaking legacy code doing that. Say
>> you have some code that does a ref test on the argument, for example. The
>> behavior would now be changed.
> I think that'd be pretty rare.
I'm not seeing how an unsupported fear that there *might* be some
incompatibilities is a good argument for instead adopting an approach
that absolutely, positively, guaranteed *WILL* break everybody's code.
regards, tom lane
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