On 03/25/2013 10:28 PM, Tom Lane wrote: > Yeah, they are, because things break when they're set wrong. They also make debugging and support harder; you need to get an ever-growing list of GUC values from the user to figure out what their query does. bytea_output, standard_conforming_strings, etc. Yick.
That said, I don't have a better answer for introducing non-BC changes. -- Craig Ringer http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers