On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 7:30 AM David Rowley <dgrowle...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm against adding GUCs to control what EXPLAIN does by default. > > A few current GUCs come to mind which gives external control to a > command's behaviour are: > > standard_conforming_strings > backslash_quote > bytea_output > > It's pretty difficult for application authors to write code that will > just work due to these GUCs. We end up with GUCs like > escape_string_warning to try and help application authors find areas > which may be problematic.
I agree with this concern, as well as with what David says later, namely that the concern is less here than in some other cases but still not zero. I do think the idea of changing the default for BUFFERS from OFF to ON is a pretty good one, though. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
