On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 09:05, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Kenneth Marshall <ktm@rice.edu> wrote:
>> Changing something like that within the minor release arc is
>> not a good idea. It would be better to have it on by default and
>> if the driver developers are not up to use it, they can have that
>> as a setting that they will need to change when going to 9.0. I
>> would be very upset to have a minor upgrade break my database. At
>> least the major upgrades have more testing.
>
> I meant, wait for the next MAJOR release to turn it on by default.
> Changing it in a minor release is clearly a bad idea.
I think with this release already being clearly marked as a bit more
than the usual major release (9.0 vs 8.5), we can get away with it
leaving the default the way it is.