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From: Graham Davis <gdavis@refractions.net>
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Great, it's nice to see that this might get rolled into one of the next 
releases.  Thanks,

Graham.


Tom Lane wrote:

>Michael Glaesemann <grzm@seespotcode.net> writes:
>  
>
>>Considering how late it is in the cycle, perhaps the change in  
>>behavior should come in 8.3.
>>    
>>
>
>Yeah, there's not really enough time to think through the consequences
>now.  I'd like to experiment with it for 8.3 though.
>
>			regards, tom lane
>  
>


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