Tom Lane wrote:
> Is it worth trying to provide some sort of backwards-compatibility mode?
> We could imagine adding a GUC variable to select binary or decimal
> precision, but I really don't want to. It would increase the amount of
> work needed by more than an order of magnitude, and this problem doesn't
> seem worth it. I'd rather just list this under Incompatibilities in the
> 7.4 release notes.
Let's just change it and list it in the release notes as an
incompatibility --- anything else is too confusing.
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