>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
Tom> I think the concern over backwards compatibility here is probablyTom> overblown; but if we're sufficiently worried
aboutit, a possibleTom> compromise is to invent a numeric_rounding_mode GUC, so thatTom> people could get back the old
behaviorif 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?
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Andrew (irc:RhodiumToad)