Hi, >Since we have a minor coming up very soon, I think it's not a good idea >to backpatch right now. Maybe you can push to master now, and consider >whether to backpatch later.
>The problem is -- if somebody has an application that gets good plans >with the current cost model, and you change the cost model and the plans >become worse, what do they do? If you change this in a major release, >this is not an issue because they must test their queries before >upgrading and if they fail to realize a problem exists then it's their >fault. If you change it in a minor release, then those people will be >very upset that things were changed suddenly, and they may get wary of >future minor upgrades, which we don't want. I agree with this, especially as we tell our customers that such changes do not happen from one minor release to another. Regards Daniel
