On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Dave Page <dp...@pgadmin.org> writes: >> Should we perhaps change the behaviour of the backend to give a >> warning only for unknown settings in the startup packet? > > It's not going to help, unless you first invent a time machine so > we can retroactively cause all PG servers that are already in the field > to behave that way. > >> It doesn't >> seem beyond the realms of possibility that we might want to add >> something else in the future, and this will at least mean that in a >> few releases time it might be reasonably safe to do so. > > This might be a good argument for changing that going forward, but > it will be *years* before we can rely on it for anything.
That's what I meant by 'a few releases' (major, not minor). -- Dave Page EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com PGDay.EU 2009 Conference: http://2009.pgday.eu/start -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
