"John L. Clark" <jlc6(at)po(dot)cwru(dot)edu> writes:
> Thanks for your help, Tom. I am certainly amused and pleased that my
> exact use case is handled in the very next PostgreSQL release.
Well, sir, your timing is excellent ;-). That's been a known problem
for quite some time, and it was only in this release cycle that it got
addressed.
regards, tom lane