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

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