> I stand by the position that it's way too late in the cycle for > insufficiently-thought-out proposals for major behavioral changes.
I don't see how announcing this earlier in the dev cycle would help, at all. The people who read -hackers have been using standards-conforming-strings for years. Further, if we announce it now, people have 4-5 months to get ready for it, assuming they were updating to 9.0.0 anyway, which I doubt anyone is. For this release, I'm already planning to have big "backwards compatibility" section and web page with *lots* of warnings and explanations, and because of the media around the release for once it will be read. I'd argue that Bruce is right; if we're not going to do it now, we might as well stop pretending we ever are. --Josh Berkus -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
