On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 6:42 AM, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> IMO the way to resolve that conflict is with a behaviour parameter to
> allow people to choose, rather than be forced to wait a year because
> some people still run an old version of an add-on package. A good way
> to do that would be to have a sql_standard = postgres | 2011 etc so we
> can tick the box in having a sql standard flagger as well.
The undesirability of syntax-altering GUCs has been discussed here on
many occasions.
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