> I see your point but there's a pretty high standard for changing
> existing behavior in bugfix releases. It's just as likely to introduce
> an application bug as to fix one...suppose the application is using
> both 'discard all' for prepared statements and advisory locks for
> other purposes. You could break that application.
I would expect someone to use "DEALLOCATE ALL" for that purpose, but
it is true that people don't always do what you expect...
...Robert