Simon Riggs wrote: > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 9:28 PM, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote: > > > Standard conforming strings > > was tricky because it was more user-facing, or certainly SQL-facing. > > Why is SQL more important than backup?
Because the percentage of database users it affects is different. Administrators know when they are installing a new version of Postgres and already are probably changing these configuration files. Application binaries and perhaps application developers are not as aware of a change, and there are a far higher percentage of them in an organization than administrators. > There is no good reason to do this so quickly. I just gave you a reason above, and as I said, doing backward compatibility can make the system more complex. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
