On 28 March 2015 at 05:16, Andrew Gierth <and...@tao11.riddles.org.uk> wrote: >>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes: > > Tom> I think the concern over backwards compatibility here is probably > Tom> overblown; but if we're sufficiently worried about it, a possible > Tom> compromise is to invent a numeric_rounding_mode GUC, so that > Tom> people could get back the old behavior if they really care. > > I only see one issue with this, but it's a nasty one: do we really want > to make all numeric operations that might do rounding stable rather than > immutable? >
Yeah, making all numeric functions non-immutable seems like a really bad idea. Regards, Dean -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
