On Wed, Aug 08, 2018 at 02:39:00PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@2ndquadrant.com> writes: >> I agree that it would be good to have it fixed in released versions, but >> I also agree that such a change could cause trouble in production for >> some. Is the "no backpatch" idea that you will push this to both pg11 >> and master? That would get my vote. > > Same here. I am not excited about putting such a change into stable > branches, mainly because the existing behavior has been there for > twenty years without any previous complaints. So it's not *that* big > a problem. But it's not too late for v11, I think.
We are talking a lot about the definition of what a stable branch is, aren't we? ;p By no-backpatch, I only implied patching v12, but that would not be a huge amount of efforts to get that into v11, so I can do that as well. Any objections to doing that? -- Michael
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