>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
Tom> I think the concern over backwards compatibility here is probably
Tom> overblown; but if we're sufficiently worried about it, a possible
Tom> compromise is to invent a numeric_rounding_mode GUC, so that
Tom> people could get back the old behavior if they really care.
I only see one issue with this, but it's a nasty one: do we really want
to make all numeric operations that might do rounding stable rather than
immutable?
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Andrew (irc:RhodiumToad)