"Greg Sabino Mullane" <g...@turnstep.com> writes:
> As one of the more vocal critics of the 8.3 implicit casting
> incident, I say +1 on making the change. Unlike casting, it's
> a simple GUC change to "fix", and now (9.0) is the time to
> do it.
Unfortunately, no: six months ago was the time to do it.
The argument for doing this now hinges solely on a marketing-driven
choice of version name, and not on any actual evidence that applications
are ready for it. We really need to do this at the start of a devel
and alpha test cycle, not at the end.
regards, tom lane
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