On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> I actually think that we should not have a GUC for this at all. We
>> should have a compiled-in default, and it should be error. If you
>> want some other behavior, decorate your functions with #option.
>
> We've agreed that the factory default should be "error", but I don't
> think we can go much further than that in the direction of breaking
> peoples' code. We need to provide a backwards-compatible option,
> IMHO, so that this isn't seen as a roadblock to updating to 8.5.
> (You can argue all you want about whether it really is one, but it'll
> be seen as one.)
Hmm... I wouldn't see inserting a line at the beginning of every
function as a roadblock, but I don't rule out the possibility that I'm
thick-skinned.
...Robert