On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 02:03:45PM -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote: > Alvaro Herrera wrote: >> David Fetter wrote: >> >>> Speaking of standard_conforming_strings, I know it's late, but if >>> we make it a requirement now, a lot of problems just go away. >>> Yes, it's inconvenient, but we're making lots of big changes, so >>> one more shouldn't halt adoption. >> >> 16 days too late ... > > More like several months plus 16 days, I'd say.
If our string problems turn out to be fixable short of making this option mandatory, possibly. It would depend on how fragile that collection of fixes turns out to be. We haven't shipped with glaring known-broken stuff in userland before. Are we going to start now? Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fet...@gmail.com Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
