On Jan 12, 2011, at 11:22 AM, Alex Hunsaker wrote:
> Personally, I think the point of a compatibility GUC is that at some
> point in the distant future we can get rid of it. If we default to
> the old behavior thats going to be harder to do. +1 for defaulting to
> the new behavior.
+1
> [ Id actually vote for _not_ having a compatibility option at all, we
> change more major things than this IMHO every major release. (And even
> then some major things in minor releases, for example the removal of
> Safe.pm) ]
Yeah, but the removal of Safe.pm actually *improved* compatibility. This patch, without the GUC, would break it.
Best,
David