On 2020-Jun-24, Robert Haas wrote:
> So really I think this turns on #1: is it plausible
> that people are using this feature, however inadvertent it may be, and
> is it potentially useful? I don't see that anybody's made an argument
> against either of those things. Unless someone can do so, I think we
> shouldn't disable this.
People (specifically the jdbc driver) *are* using this feature in this
way, but they didn't realize they were doing it. It was an accident and
they didn't notice.
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