<p dir="ltr">Normally I'm not for adding gucs that just gate new features. But I think a simple guc to turn this on or
offwould be fine and alleviate any concerns. I think users would appreciate it quite a lot<p dir="ltr">It would even
havea positive effect of helping raise awareness of the feature. I often scan the list of config options to get an idea
ofnew features when I'm installing new software or upgrading.<p dir="ltr">-- <br /> greg<div class="gmail_quote">On 1
Apr2014 17:38, "Jim Nasby" <<a href="mailto:jim@nasby.net">jim@nasby.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"
/><blockquoteclass="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> On 4/1/14, 1:04
PM,Peter Geoghegan wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc
solid;padding-left:1ex"><blockquoteclass="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc
solid;padding-left:1ex">It strains credulity to think that this<br /> >patch alone would have that effect, but there
mightbe quite a few<br /> >similar improvements that are possible. So I think it would be good<br /> >to
considerhow far we want to go in this direction and where we think<br /> >we might want to stop. That's not to say,
let'snot ever do this,<br /> >just, let's think carefully about where we want to end up.<br /></blockquote> Fair
enough.<br/></blockquote><br /> I agree with the concern, but also have to say that I can't count how many times I
couldhave used this. A big +1, at least in this case.<br /> -- <br /> Jim C. Nasby, Data Architect
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