On Oct 17, 2015, at 10:57 AM, Andres Freund <and...@anarazel.de> wrote: >> Rough patch for the extensible, backpatchable, non-invasive proposal >> attached. > > This just doesn't make any sense. This way npgsql setting that flag can't be > released before a new set of backbranch releases are in widespread use. > Otherwise it'll just error out in all those, not just in 9.5 as it's now the > case. It breaks compatibility with all unsupported versions of postgres > because those will never learn to ignore this driver argument. Without any > need.
Quite so. Simon's proposal would leave a swath of devastation of exactly the type we're trying to fix, but on an epic scale. ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers