| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Cédric Villemain <cedric(dot)villemain(dot)debian(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alex Hunsaker <badalex(at)gmail(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: standard_conforming_strings |
| Date: | 2010-07-18 17:16:59 |
| Message-ID: | 11923.1279473419@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"David E. Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com> writes:
> On Jul 18, 2010, at 1:35 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> I think there are two ways we can do this, seeing that most appear to be
>> in favor of doing it in the first place: Either we just flip the
>> default, make a note in the release notes, and see what happens. Or we
>> spend some time now and make, say, a list of driver versions and
>> application versions that work with standard_conforming_strings = on,
>> and then decide based on that, and also make that list a public resource
>> for packagers etc.
> Do both. Turn them on, then make a list and inform driver maintainers who need to update. They've got a year, after all.
Yeah. If we wait for driver authors to do something, we'll never make
this change at all. The idea of committing it now is to give them a
shove, *and* enough time to respond.
regards, tom lane
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