On 1 July 2016 at 16:04, Robert Haas <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 9:34 AM, Simon Riggs <[email protected]> wrote:
> > "This can happen on standby servers"
> >
> > The commit message doesn't mention, but it applies only to parallel
> query?
> >
> > Why then is this backpatched to 9.5?
>
> Because that's where the code was added.  In 9.5, it would only matter
> for extensions using the ParallelContext machinery.
>

It seems strange to me to make an unnecessary change to a production
release, that's all.

My understanding was that we backpatched only as far as a bug occurs,
rather than as far as patch can be applied.

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