Dean Rasheed wrote, On 2015-03-28 10:01: > 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.
Would it be possible to make it an unchangeable per-cluster or per-database setting, kinda like how encoding behaves? Wouldn't that allow to keep the functions immutable? -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
