David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
> I think the answer is "no," and we should deprecate this misfeature.
> It's bad enough that we'll be supporting it for five years after
> deprecating it, but it's worse to leave it hanging around our necks
> forever. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albatross_(metaphor)
The problem with that approach is that not everybody agrees that
it's a misfeature.
regards, tom lane